diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b501bc38..3d12f6e1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,7 +6,16 @@
 /*.rpm
 /.cache
 /build
+/debian/*.debhelper
+/debian/*.debhelper.log
+/debian/*.substvars
+/debian/.*
 /debian/changelog
+/debian/debhelper*
+/debian/files
+/debian/grout-dev/
+/debian/grout/
+/debian/tmp/
 /redhat-linux-build
 /subprojects/dpdk
 /subprojects/ecoli
diff --git a/Containerfile b/Containerfile
index f05144b3..79650be6 100644
--- a/Containerfile
+++ b/Containerfile
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ RUN rm -f /tmp/grout-debug*.rpm
 RUN dnf -y install --nodocs --setopt=install_weak_deps=0 /tmp/grout*.rpm
 RUN dnf -y --enablerepo='*' clean all
 RUN rm -f /tmp/grout*.rpm
-CMD ["/usr/sbin/grout"]
+CMD ["/usr/bin/grout"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 434c96a4..a25f9e94 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ systemctl restart grout.service
      Memory: 6.6M
         CPU: 19.185s
      CGroup: /system.slice/grout.service
-             └─31299 /usr/sbin/grout
+             └─31299 /usr/bin/grout
 
 Nov 30 10:31:31 grout systemd[1]: Starting Graph router daemon...
 Nov 30 10:31:31 grout grout[31299]: GROUT: main: starting grout version v0.2-93-gf53240e3750a
diff --git a/debian/.gitignore b/debian/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 62514e8a..00000000
--- a/debian/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-*
-.*
diff --git a/debian/grout.install b/debian/grout.install
index 5ccfc0d3..033c8531 100644
--- a/debian/grout.install
+++ b/debian/grout.install
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /etc/default/grout
 /etc/grout.init
 /usr/bin/grcli
-/usr/sbin/grout
+/usr/bin/grout
 /usr/share/man/man1/grcli.1
 /usr/share/man/man8/grout.8
diff --git a/main/grout.service b/main/grout.service
index ea02a1fc..5bb04e17 100644
--- a/main/grout.service
+++ b/main/grout.service
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Type=notify
 Restart=on-failure
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/grout
 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/udevadm settle
-ExecStart=/usr/sbin/grout $GROUT_OPTS
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/grout $GROUT_OPTS
 ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/grcli -xef /etc/grout.init
 
 [Install]
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index e2c55022..236e9d58 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ grout_exe = executable(
   dependencies: [dpdk_dep, ev_core_dep, ev_thread_dep, numa_dep],
   c_args: ['-D__GROUT_MAIN__'],
   install: true,
-  install_dir: 'sbin',
 )
 
 grcli_exe = executable(
diff --git a/rpm/grout.spec b/rpm/grout.spec
index 5e8dfcdc..1ca11fc2 100644
--- a/rpm/grout.spec
+++ b/rpm/grout.spec
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot} %{_vpath_builddir}
 %attr(644, root, root) %{_datadir}/bash-completion/completions/grout
 %attr(644, root, root) %{_datadir}/bash-completion/completions/grcli
 %attr(755, root, root) %{_bindir}/grcli
-%attr(755, root, root) %{_sbindir}/grout
+%attr(755, root, root) %{_bindir}/grout
 %attr(644, root, root) %{_mandir}/man1/grcli.1*
 %attr(644, root, root) %{_mandir}/man8/grout.8*