diff --git a/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/install b/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/install
index 8b7613e44d..4ac80626b7 100755
--- a/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/install
+++ b/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/install
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-VER=`ls $BUILD/linux*/modules/lib/modules`
-
 mkdir -p $INSTALL/$XORG_PATH_MODULES/drivers
   cp -P $PKG_BUILD/nvidia_drv.so $INSTALL/$XORG_PATH_MODULES/drivers
 
@@ -41,8 +39,8 @@ mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
 # rename to not conflicting with Mesa libGL.so
   cp -P $PKG_BUILD/libGL.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib/libGL_nvidia.so.1
 
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/lib/modules/$VER/nvidia
-  cp $PKG_BUILD/kernel/nvidia.ko $INSTALL/lib/modules/$VER/nvidia
+mkdir -p $INSTALL/lib/modules/`kernel_version`/nvidia
+  cp $PKG_BUILD/kernel/nvidia.ko $INSTALL/lib/modules/`kernel_version`/nvidia
 
 mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/bin
   cp $PKG_BUILD/nvidia-smi $INSTALL/usr/bin