--- a/src/recollinstall.in
+++ b/src/recollinstall.in
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@
 ${INSTALL} -m 0755 filters/rcl* ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
 ${INSTALL} -m 0755 desktop/xdg-utils-1.0.1/scripts/xdg-open \
 	   ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
+${INSTALL} -m 0755 desktop/hotrecoll.py \
+	   ${datadir}/recoll/filters/ || exit 1
 
 ${INSTALL} -m 0444 \
 	   sampleconf/mimeconf \