diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3b88792..0c9f18c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 # Makefile for symlinks
-CC     := gcc
+CC      = gcc
+# append options like `-o owner -g group` here if desired
+INSTALL = install
 CFLAGS += $(shell getconf LFS_CFLAGS 2>/dev/null)
-OWNER   = root
-GROUP   = root
-MANDIR  = /usr/man/man8/symlinks.8
-BINDIR  = /usr/local/bin
+PREFIX ?= /usr/local
+MANDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/share/man/man8
+BINDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/bin
+
 
 .PHONY: all
 all: symlinks
@@ -13,8 +15,14 @@ symlinks: symlinks.c
 	$(CC) -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 $(CFLAGS) -o symlinks symlinks.c
 
 install: all symlinks.8
-	$(INSTALL) -c -o $(OWNER) -g $(GROUP) -m 755 symlinks $(BINDIR)
-	$(INSTALL) -c -o $(OWNER) -g $(GROUP) -m 644 symlinks.8 $(MANDIR)
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(BINDIR)
+	$(INSTALL) -m 755 symlinks $(BINDIR)
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(MANDIR)
+	$(INSTALL) -m 644 symlinks.8 $(MANDIR)
+
+uninstall:
+	-rm -i $(BINDIR)/symlinks
+	-rm -i $(MANDIR)/symlinks.8
 
 .PHONY: clean
 clean:
diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 7aaa5c5..342eb6b 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -16,9 +16,19 @@ Installation
 
 ### Source:
 
-    $ ./configure
+    $ cd path/to/the/extracted/source
     $ make
-    $ make install
+    $ make install  # or 'sudo make install' if you get an error
+
+If you would like to install to some other location besides the default of `/usr/local`, which usually requires admin privileges, then add `PREFIX=/some/other/path` to the end of your `make install`. For example:
+
+    $ make install PREFIX=$HOME/.local
+
+### Pre-compiled binaries:
+
+Many Linux distributions already have a version of Mark Lord's original `symlinks` in their repositories; see https://pkgs.org/search/?q=symlinks for details.
+
+If you use MacPorts, you can `sudo port install symlinks`.
 
 
 Usage