diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
index a3b6c0364169..b4932ee0f1b9 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ in python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   ];
 
   postPatch = ''
-    sed -i "s,/usr/share/qutebrowser,$out/share/qutebrowser,g" qutebrowser/utils/standarddir.py
+    sed -i "s,/usr/share/,$out/share/,g" qutebrowser/utils/standarddir.py
   '' + lib.optionalString withPdfReader ''
     sed -i "s,/usr/share/pdf.js,${pdfjs},g" qutebrowser/browser/pdfjs.py
   '';