diff --git a/README b/README
index 447a92583..0ec038fed 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ This package contains Linux man pages for sections
 
 Install by copying to your favourite location.
 "make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8].
+To install to a path different from /usr use
+"make install prefix=/install/path".
 "make" will move the pages from this package that are older than
 the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed',
 then remove old versions (compressed or not),