diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
index 6d919ce520f5..580cf6978d87 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ in mkDerivationWith python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace qutebrowser/misc/quitter.py --subst-var-by qutebrowser "$out/bin/qutebrowser"
 
-    sed -i "s,/usr/share/,$out/share/,g" qutebrowser/utils/standarddir.py
+    sed -i "s,/usr,$out,g" qutebrowser/utils/standarddir.py
   '' + lib.optionalString withPdfReader ''
     sed -i "s,/usr/share/pdf.js,${pdfjs},g" qutebrowser/browser/pdfjs.py
   '';