diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index b6c391244..f6261b220 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ If you want to compile from source on 20.04 or earlier, you must force the build
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 git clone https://github.com/mawww/kakoune.git && cd kakoune/src
 CXX=g++-10 make
-PREFIX=$HOME/.local make install
+make PREFIX=$HOME/.local install
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