diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 09f434781..94c2937f6 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -4,16 +4,17 @@ For that use your package manager, the rest is already done by the packager.
 
 Uninstall old version
 ---------------------
-If you do a source install in the same place of an existing install,
+If you do a source install in the same place as an existing install,
 you need to remove the old version first. You can delete the old
-version by deleting the installed directories (for example,
-        /usr/share/gramps
+version by deleting the installed directories. For example, if your installation prefix is /usr/local, remove the following:
+	/usr/local/bin
+        /usr/local/share/gramps
         /usr/local/lib/pythonx.x/site-packages/gramps
+If you installed with a package manager you might instead need to remove
         /usr/local/lib/pythonx.x/dist-packages/gramps
-        /usr/lib/pythonx.x/site-packages/gramps
-        /usr/lib/pythonx.x/dist-packages/gramps
-    where pythonx.x is python2.7 or whatever version you installed gramps with.
-Also remove the gramps .egg files that are installed along with the gramps
+
+replacing pythonx.x with the python version you used, e.g. python2.7.
+Also remove any gramps .egg files that are installed along with the gramps
 directory.
 
 If you don't know the list of all files that Gramps installed, you can