diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6df202c..98eeeb0 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -114,6 +114,6 @@ else (DOXYGEN_FOUND)
   message("Doxygen need to be installed to generate the doxygen documentation")
 endif (DOXYGEN_FOUND)

 configure_file(miniocpp.pc.in miniocpp.pc @ONLY)
-install(FILES ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/miniocpp.pc DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/pkgconfig)
+install(FILES ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/miniocpp.pc DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/pkgconfig)