diff --git a/build/debian/tribler/usr/bin/tribler b/build/debian/tribler/usr/bin/tribler
index f50b6f6ac5c..d4eaee4180a 100755
--- a/build/debian/tribler/usr/bin/tribler
+++ b/build/debian/tribler/usr/bin/tribler
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
 echo "Starting Tribler..."
 
 pushd "/usr/share/tribler"
-exec /usr/share/tribler/tribler "$@" > `mktemp /tmp/$USER-tribler-XXXXXXXX.log` 2>&1
+exec /usr/share/tribler/tribler "$@" > `mktemp "/tmp/$USER-tribler-XXXXXX.log"` 2>&1
 popd