diff --git a/libdbusmenu-glib/pre-install b/libdbusmenu-glib/pre-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..88d22da84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libdbusmenu-glib/pre-install
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+#!/bin/bash
+mkdir -p /usr/share/glib-2.0/gettext