diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 5567fd26e..e36823ab5 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ If all you want to do is convert XML to HTML perform the following:
 
 * DocBook XSL Stylesheets 
   - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/pst/docbook-xsl.html
+  - additionally create a link from
+    /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.65.1 to
+    /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-current
+
+    cd /usr/share/xml/docbook/ &&
+    ln -s xsl-stylesheets-1.65.1 xsl-stylesheets-current
 
 * HTMLTidy
   - http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cdca3b9c5..6f61edeeb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ CHUNK_QUIET=0
 PDF_OUTPUT=LFS-BOOK.pdf
 PRINT_OUTPUT=LFS-BOOK-PRINTABLE.pdf
 NOCHUNKS_OUTPUT=LFS-BOOK.html
+XSLROOTDIR=/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-current
 
 lfs:
 	xsltproc --xinclude --nonet -stringparam chunk.quietly $(CHUNK_QUIET) \
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ lfs:
 	if [ ! -e $(BASEDIR)/images ]; then \
 	  mkdir -p $(BASEDIR)/images; \
 	fi;
-	cp /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.65.1/images/*.png \
+	cp $(XSLROOTDIR)/images/*.png \
 	  $(BASEDIR)/images
 	cd $(BASEDIR)/; sed -i -e "s@../stylesheets@stylesheets@g" \
 	  index.html part1.html part2.html part3.html longindex.html