diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 88d962a85..2b32524e5 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -75,17 +75,12 @@ Quick install
          --extra-include-dirs=/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/51.1/include \
          -funicode_collation text-icu pandoc-citeproc
 
-To build the `pandoc.1` man page:
+The `pandoc.1` man page will be built and installed automatically.
+The build process shows you where it is installed: you may need
+to set your `MANPATH` accordingly.
 
-    pandoc --print-default-data-file pandoc.1 > pandoc.1
-
-To build the `pandoc-citeproc` man pages, go to the pandoc-citeproc
-build directory, and
-
-    cd man
-    make
-
-The man page will be created in the `man1` subdirectory.
+The `pandoc-citeproc.1` man page will also be built and installed
+automatically.
 
 [GHC]: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
 [Haskell platform]: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
index 03e3248ef..c72e5b10b 100644
--- a/Setup.hs
+++ b/Setup.hs
@@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 
 import Distribution.Simple
 import Distribution.Simple.PreProcess
+import Distribution.Simple.InstallDirs (mandir)
 import Distribution.PackageDescription (PackageDescription(..), Executable(..))
 import System.Process ( rawSystem )
 import System.FilePath ( (</>) )
 import System.Directory ( findExecutable )
-import Distribution.Simple.Utils (info, rawSystemExit)
+import Distribution.Simple.Utils (info, notice, rawSystemExit, installOrdinaryFile)
 import Distribution.Simple.Setup
 import Distribution.Simple.LocalBuildInfo
 import Distribution.Verbosity
@@ -32,7 +33,11 @@ main = defaultMainWithHooks $ simpleUserHooks {
       -- enable hsb2hs preprocessor for .hsb files
       hookedPreProcessors = [ppBlobSuffixHandler]
     , postBuild = \args bf pkgdescr lbi ->
-                  makeManPages args bf pkgdescr lbi
+                  makeManPage args bf pkgdescr lbi
+
+    , postCopy = \_ flags pkg lbi ->
+                installManpage pkg lbi (fromFlag $ copyVerbosity flags)
+                NoCopyDest
     }
 
 ppBlobSuffixHandler :: PPSuffixHandler
@@ -48,10 +53,10 @@ ppBlobSuffixHandler = ("hsb", \_ _ ->
          return ()
   })
 
-makeManPages :: Args -> BuildFlags -> PackageDescription -> LocalBuildInfo
-             -> IO ()
-makeManPages _ bf _ LocalBuildInfo{buildDir=buildDir}
-  = do info verbosity "Creating data/pandoc.1"
+makeManPage :: Args -> BuildFlags -> PackageDescription -> LocalBuildInfo
+            -> IO ()
+makeManPage _ bf _ LocalBuildInfo{buildDir=buildDir}
+  = do notice verbosity "Creating man/pandoc.1"
        rawSystemExit verbosity progPath args
   where verbosity = fromFlagOrDefault normal $ buildVerbosity bf
         progPath = buildDir </> "pandoc" </> "pandoc"
@@ -60,5 +65,12 @@ makeManPages _ bf _ LocalBuildInfo{buildDir=buildDir}
                 "--filter", "man/capitalizeHeaders.hs",
                 "--filter", "man/removeNotes.hs",
                 "--filter", "man/removeLinks.hs",
-                "-o", "data/pandoc.1"]
+                "-o", "man/pandoc.1"]
 
+installManpage :: PackageDescription -> LocalBuildInfo
+               -> Verbosity -> CopyDest -> IO ()
+installManpage pkg lbi verbosity copy = do
+  let mandest = mandir (absoluteInstallDirs pkg lbi copy) </>
+                "man1" </> "pandoc.1"
+  notice verbosity $ "Copying man page to " ++ mandest
+  installOrdinaryFile verbosity ("man" </> "pandoc.1") mandest
diff --git a/make_deb.sh b/make_deb.sh
index b61a43d32..a5aaf1549 100755
--- a/make_deb.sh
+++ b/make_deb.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ mkdir -p $DEST/share/doc/pandoc-citeproc
 find $DIST -type d | xargs chmod 755
 cp $SANDBOX/bin/pandoc $DEST/bin/
 cp $SANDBOX/bin/pandoc-citeproc $DEST/bin/
-$SANDBOX/bin/pandoc --print-default-data-file pandoc.1 > $DEST/share/man/man1/pandoc.1
+cp $SANDBOX/share/man/man1/pandoc.1 $DEST/share/man/man1/pandoc.1
 gzip -9 $DEST/share/man/man1/pandoc.1
 cp $PANDOC_CITEPROC_PATH/man/man1/pandoc-citeproc.1 $DEST/share/man/man1/
 gzip -9 $DEST/share/man/man1/pandoc-citeproc.1
diff --git a/make_osx_package.sh b/make_osx_package.sh
index 32314f967..e86ed18f2 100755
--- a/make_osx_package.sh
+++ b/make_osx_package.sh
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ for f in pandoc pandoc-citeproc; do
   cp $SANDBOX/bin/$f $DEST/bin/;
 done
 cp $PANDOC_CITEPROC_PATH/man/man1/pandoc-citeproc.1 $DEST/share/man/man1/
-$SANDBOX/bin/pandoc --print-default-data-file pandoc.1 > $DEST/share/man/man1/pandoc.1
+cp $SANDBOX/share/man/man1/pandoc.1 $DEST/share/man/man1/pandoc.1
 
 chown -R $ME:staff $DIST
 
diff --git a/pandoc.cabal b/pandoc.cabal
index 8d69358fb..54e09d38f 100644
--- a/pandoc.cabal
+++ b/pandoc.cabal
@@ -106,8 +106,6 @@ Data-Files:
                  data/sample.lua
                  -- documentation
                  README, COPYRIGHT
-                 -- man page (generated by Setup.hs after build:)
-                 data/pandoc.1
 Extra-Source-Files:
                  -- documentation
                  INSTALL, BUGS, CONTRIBUTING.md, changelog
@@ -206,6 +204,7 @@ Extra-Source-Files:
                  tests/epub/*.native
                  tests/txt2tags.t2t
                  tests/twiki-reader.twiki
+Extra-Tmp-Files: man/pandoc.1
 
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