diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml
index 484a9d4629..9000ed0430 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@
If you want to build a localized version, replace the
previous command line with the following:
- &prompt.user; make LOCALIZED_LANG=your_language install clean
+ &prompt.root; make LOCALIZED_LANG=your_language install clean
You have to replace
your_language with the correct