diff --git a/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/distro.html b/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/distro.html
index 8d5c041cf3..09856c35be 100644
--- a/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/distro.html
+++ b/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/distro.html
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
             <li>Install the various dependencies listed below: Make sure that any python packages are installed into python2.5 (e.g. setuptools, python-imaging, PyQt4, etc). You will also have to install the development versions of the packages (these packages usually have  -dev added to their names).</li>
             <li>Run the following commands in a terminal:
             <pre class="wiki">
-wget -O- http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/downloads/calibre-$version.tar.gz | tar xvz 
+wget -O- http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/downloads/calibre-${version}.tar.gz | tar xvz 
 cd calibre*
 python setup.py build &amp;&amp; sudo python setup.py install
             </pre></li>