diff --git a/linux/keyman-config/Makefile b/linux/keyman-config/Makefile
index a12120c2cc..8504557c2e 100644
--- a/linux/keyman-config/Makefile
+++ b/linux/keyman-config/Makefile
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ default:
 install:
 	python3 setup.py install
 
-install-local:
-	mkdir -p /tmp/kmfl/lib/python3.6/site-packages
-	PYTHONUSERBASE=/tmp/kmfl python3 setup.py install --user
+install-temp:
+	mkdir -p /tmp/kmfl/`python3 -c 'import sys;import os;pythonver=f"python{sys.version_info[0]}.{sys.version_info[1]}";sitedir = os.path.join("lib", pythonver, "site-packages");print(sitedir)'`
+	#PYTHONUSERBASE=/tmp/kmfl python3 setup.py install --user
 
 
 clean:
diff --git a/linux/scripts/build.sh b/linux/scripts/build.sh
index 1937f78ea8..05999303cd 100755
--- a/linux/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/linux/scripts/build.sh
@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@ then
 	sudo make install
 else
 	echo "doing /tmp install of keyman-config"
-	make install-local
+	make install-temp
 fi
 cd $BASEDIR