diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/default.nix
index 2ecde7e834f..5d2cceff78d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/default.nix
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ let
     kdnssd = callPackage ./kdnssd.nix {};
     kdoctools = callPackage ./kdoctools {};
     kemoticons = callPackage ./kemoticons.nix {};
-    kfilemetadata = callPackage ./kfilemetadata.nix {};
+    kfilemetadata = callPackage ./kfilemetadata {};
     kglobalaccel = callPackage ./kglobalaccel.nix {};
     kguiaddons = callPackage ./kguiaddons.nix {};
     khtml = callPackage ./khtml.nix {};
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata/cmake-install-paths.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata/cmake-install-paths.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..732f7b69c82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata/cmake-install-paths.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Index: kfilemetadata-5.18.0/src/CMakeLists.txt
+===================================================================
+--- kfilemetadata-5.18.0.orig/src/CMakeLists.txt
++++ kfilemetadata-5.18.0/src/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ install(TARGETS KF5FileMetaData EXPORT K
+ 
+ install(EXPORT KF5FileMetaDataTargets
+         NAMESPACE KF5::
+-        DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}/cmake/KF5FileMetaData
++        DESTINATION ${KDE_INSTALL_FULL_CMAKEPACKAGEDIR}/KF5FileMetaData
+         FILE KF5FileMetaDataTargets.cmake)
+ 
+ install(FILES
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata/default.nix
similarity index 57%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata.nix
rename to pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata/default.nix
index be99c58d550..9bb4831cf8d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-{ kdeFramework, lib, extra-cmake-modules, attr, ebook_tools, exiv2
-, ffmpeg, karchive, ki18n, poppler, qtbase, taglib
+{ kdeFramework, lib, copyPathsToStore, extra-cmake-modules
+, attr, ebook_tools, exiv2, ffmpeg, karchive, ki18n, poppler, qtbase, taglib
 }:
 
 kdeFramework {
   name = "kfilemetadata";
+  patches = copyPathsToStore (lib.readPathsFromFile ./. ./series);
   nativeBuildInputs = [ extra-cmake-modules ];
   buildInputs = [ attr ebook_tools exiv2 ffmpeg karchive poppler taglib ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ qtbase ki18n ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata/series b/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata/series
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d2689425c38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks-5.18/kfilemetadata/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+cmake-install-paths.patch