diff --git a/data/linux/debian/control b/data/linux/debian/control
index e23f1f51..c32deaa3 100644
--- a/data/linux/debian/control
+++ b/data/linux/debian/control
@@ -13,11 +13,7 @@ Homepage: http://www.mitsuba-renderer.org
 
 Package: mitsuba
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libqt4-core, libqt4-gui, 
-	libqt4-network, libqt4-opengl, libqt4-xml, libpng12-0, libjpeg62, 
-	libilmbase6, libopenexr6, libxerces-c3.1, libboost-filesystem1.46.0, 
-	libboost-system1.46.0, libboost-python1.46.0, libglewmx1.5, 
-	libxxf86vm1, collada-dom, libgl1-mesa-glx, libglu1-mesa
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: Mitsuba renderer 
  Mitsuba is an extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. It implements unbiased as well as biased techniques and contains heavy optimizations targeted towards current CPU architectures. 
  .
diff --git a/data/linux/debian/mitsuba.install.template b/data/linux/debian/mitsuba.install.template
index 176caf1a..8b0d90f8 100644
--- a/data/linux/debian/mitsuba.install.template
+++ b/data/linux/debian/mitsuba.install.template
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ dist/libmitsuba-hw.so /usr/lib
 dist/libmitsuba-render.so /usr/lib
 dist/libmitsuba-core.so /usr/lib
 dist/libmitsuba-bidir.so /usr/lib
-dist/python/PYTHONVERSION/mitsuba.so /usr/lib/pymodules/pythonPYTHONVERSION
+dist/python/PYTHONVERSION/mitsuba.so /usr/lib/pythonPYTHONVERSION/dist-packages
 dist/plugins/* /usr/share/mitsuba/plugins
 dist/data/* /usr/share/mitsuba/data
 src/mtsgui/resources/mitsuba48.png /usr/share/pixmaps