diff --git a/doc/install.txt b/doc/install.txt
index 2140c950..852bd913 100644
--- a/doc/install.txt
+++ b/doc/install.txt
@@ -20,8 +20,13 @@ Setup for GNU/Linux
 On all major Linux distributions (Debian, Mandriva, Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu),
 the ``linkchecker`` package is available for install.
 
-If ``pip`` is available, ``sudo pip install linkchecker`` installs
-LinkChecker to your system.
+If ``pip`` is available, this command should install LinkChecker on
+the local system:
+
+``sudo pip --allow-external linkchecker --allow-unverified linkchecker install linkchecker``
+
+The ``--allow-external`` and ``--allow-unverified`` are necessary since the
+source package is hosted on github instead of the Pypi package index.
 
 
 Manual setup for Unix systems
diff --git a/doc/web/templates/default.html b/doc/web/templates/default.html
index f600413f..f6c4f28d 100644
--- a/doc/web/templates/default.html
+++ b/doc/web/templates/default.html
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@
 <a href="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/{{site.app.lname}}/"
   title="Download Debian installer"
   class="button"><span>{{site.app.name}}-{{site.app.version}}.deb</span></a>
-<a href="http://wummel.github.io/{{site.app.lname}}/dist/{{site.app.name}}-{{site.app.version}}.tar.xz"
-  title="Download Source .tar.xz package"
-  class="button"><span>{{site.app.name}}-{{site.app.version}}.tar.xz</span></a>
+<a href="http://wummel.github.io/{{site.app.lname}}/dist/{{site.app.name}}-{{site.app.version}}.tar.gz"
+  title="Download Source .tar.gz package"
+  class="button"><span>{{site.app.name}}-{{site.app.version}}.tar.gz</span></a>
 </p>
 <p><a href="https://github.com/wummel/{{site.app.lname}}/blob/master/doc/changelog.txt">Changelog</a></p>
 <p class="repo-owner"><a href="https://github.com/wummel/{{site.app.lname}}">{{site.app.name}}</a> is