diff --git a/system/localepurge/localepurge.SlackBuild b/system/localepurge/localepurge.SlackBuild
index bbe4c1a4f8..554d227f12 100644
--- a/system/localepurge/localepurge.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/localepurge/localepurge.SlackBuild
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ patch -uN debian/localepurge.config < $CWD/localepurge.config.diff
 install -D -m755 usr/sbin/localepurge $PKG/usr/bin/localepurge
 install -D -m644 debian/localepurge.8 $PKG/usr/man/man8/localepurge.8
 install -D -m755 debian/localepurge.config $PKG/usr/bin/localepurge-config
-install -D -m644 $CWD/locale.nopurge $PKG/etc/locale.nopurge
+install -D -m644 $CWD/locale.nopurge $PKG/etc/locale.nopurge.new
 
 if [ ! -e /var/cache/localepurge/localelist ]; then
   find /usr/share/locale -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "*" -printf "%f\n" | grep "^[a-z]" | cut -d" " -f1 | sort -u > $CWD/localelist