diff --git a/indra/develop.py b/indra/develop.py
index e19ecb7314c4a261341407840eeed9400d82b9aa..17ac1b380160a1711ef0e51ae60fed1ce5c2d16e 100755
--- a/indra/develop.py
+++ b/indra/develop.py
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ def run(self, command, name=None, retry_on=None, retries=1):
         '''Run a program.  If the program fails, raise an exception.'''
         assert name is not None, 'On windows an executable path must be given in name.'
         if not os.path.isfile(name):
-            name = self.find_in_path(name)
+            name = self.find_in_path(name)[0]
         while retries:
             retries = retries - 1
             print "develop.py tries to run:", command