diff --git a/README b/README
index ed3ce6a..7c04956 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
 Note that there's no "make uninstall".
 
 For Debian-based distros, you can do the following instead of the last step:
-$ cpack -G DEB
+$ fakeroot cpack -G DEB
 # dpkg -i razer-bw-te-ctl-*.deb