diff --git a/development/checkbashisms/checkbashisms.SlackBuild b/development/checkbashisms/checkbashisms.SlackBuild
index 0850d29cfa..70911367fd 100644
--- a/development/checkbashisms/checkbashisms.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/checkbashisms/checkbashisms.SlackBuild
@@ -41,9 +41,13 @@ mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $PKG
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/bin
-install -m 0755 "$CWD/$PRGNAM.pl?id=$REV" $PKG/usr/bin/$PRGNAM
+install -m 0755 "$CWD/$PRGNAM.pl?id=$REV" $PKG/usr/bin/$PRGNAM || \
+  install -m 0755 "$CWD/$PRGNAM.pl" $PKG/usr/bin/$PRGNAM
+
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/man/man1
-cat "$CWD/$PRGNAM.1?id=$REV" | gzip -9c > $PKG/usr/man/man1/$PRGNAM.1.gz
+cat "$CWD/$PRGNAM.1?id=$REV" > $PKG/usr/man/man1/$PRGNAM.1 || \
+  cat "$CWD/$PRGNAM.1" > $PKG/usr/man/man1/$PRGNAM.1
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man1/$PRGNAM.1
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild