diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlto/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlto/default.nix
index 4b64c8e9778..5c34ff7554d 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlto/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlto/default.nix
@@ -27,12 +27,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ libxml2 libxslt docbook_xml_dtd_45 docbook_xsl ];
 
   postInstall = ''
-    wrapProgram "$out/bin/xmlto" \
-       --prefix PATH : "${lib.makeBinPath [ libxslt libxml2 getopt ]}"
-
     # `w3m' is needed for HTML to text conversions.
-    substituteInPlace "$out/share/xmlto/format/docbook/txt" \
-      --replace "/usr/bin/w3m" "${w3m}/bin/w3m"
+    wrapProgram "$out/bin/xmlto" \
+       --prefix PATH : "${lib.makeBinPath [ libxslt libxml2 getopt w3m ]}"
   '';
 
   meta = {