diff --git a/debian/ngcp-rtpengine-iptables.install b/debian/ngcp-rtpengine-iptables.install
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d1c0562d..000000000
--- a/debian/ngcp-rtpengine-iptables.install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-iptables-extension/libxt_RTPENGINE.so /lib/xtables/
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 30c151ef8..cbcf64520 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ sversion:=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog|grep "^Version:"|cut -d" " -f2|rev|cut -d-
 PACKAGE=ngcp-rtpengine-kernel
 ## end of kernel package specific stuff
 
+XTABLES_DIR:=$(shell pkg-config xtables --variable=xtlibdir || echo /lib/xtables)
+
 %:
 	dh $@ --parallel
 
@@ -59,6 +61,11 @@ override_dh_auto_install-indep:
 
 	dh_auto_install
 
+override_dh_install:
+	dh_install
+	dh_installdirs -pngcp-rtpengine-iptables $(XTABLES_DIR)
+	install -m 0644 iptables-extension/libxt_RTPENGINE.so debian/ngcp-rtpengine-iptables/$(XTABLES_DIR)
+
 .PHONY: override_dh_strip
 override_dh_strip:
 	dh_strip --dbg-package=ngcp-rtpengine-dbg