diff --git a/Shorewall-core/shorewallrc.debian b/Shorewall-core/shorewallrc.debian
index 8bf6f6678..2a636bab5 100644
--- a/Shorewall-core/shorewallrc.debian
+++ b/Shorewall-core/shorewallrc.debian
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LIBEXECDIR=${PREFIX}/share              #Directory for executable scripts.
 PERLLIBDIR=${PREFIX}/share/shorewall    #Directory to install Shorewall Perl module directory
 CONFDIR=/etc                            #Directory where subsystem configurations are installed
 SBINDIR=/sbin                           #Directory where system administration programs are installed
-MANDIR=${PREFIX}/man                    #Directory where manpages are installed.
+MANDIR=${PREFIX}/share/man              #Directory where manpages are installed.
 INITDIR=/etc/init.d                     #Directory where SysV init scripts are installed.
 INITFILE=$PRODUCT                       #Name of the product's installed SysV init script
 INITSOURCE=init.debian.sh               #Name of the distributed file to be installed as the SysV init script
diff --git a/Shorewall/install.sh b/Shorewall/install.sh
index dad48cc12..0fa6c1389 100755
--- a/Shorewall/install.sh
+++ b/Shorewall/install.sh
@@ -1072,13 +1072,13 @@ cd manpages
 [ -n "$INSTALLD" ] || mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}/man5/ ${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}/man8/
 
 for f in *.5; do
-    gzip -c $f > $f.gz
+    gzip -9c $f > $f.gz
     run_install $INSTALLD  -m 0644 $f.gz ${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}/man5/$f.gz
     echo "Man page $f.gz installed to ${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}/man5/$f.gz"
 done
 
 for f in *.8; do
-    gzip -c $f > $f.gz
+    gzip -9c $f > $f.gz
     run_install $INSTALLD  -m 0644 $f.gz ${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}/man8/$f.gz
     echo "Man page $f.gz installed to ${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}/man8/$f.gz"
 done