diff --git a/README b/README
index 818c792..ed53e05 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ The GUI also isn't going to be built if you don't have the GTK+ 3 development
 packages installed, if your distribution has any.
 
 For Debian-based distros, you can do the following instead of the last step:
- $ fakeroot cpack -G DEB
+ $ cpack -G DEB
  # dpkg -i sensei-raw-ctl-*.deb
 
 Note that for versions of CMake before 2.8.9, you need to prefix cpack with