diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 58f27a5..94aa145 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-TAGGER_BASE ?:= $(HOME)/Dropbox/tagger/comictagger
+TAGGER_BASE ?= $(HOME)/Dropbox/tagger/comictagger
 TAGGER_SRC := $(TAGGER_BASE)/comictaggerlib
 VERSION_STR := $(shell grep version $(TAGGER_SRC)/ctversion.py| cut -d= -f2 | sed 's/\"//g')
 PASSWORD    := $(shell cat $(TAGGER_BASE)/project_password.txt)