diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 506e5aa0..04b2c81f 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ filesToInstall_license = 'LICENSE'
 if host_machine.system() == 'linux'
    #============================================= Linux Install Directories ============================================
    installSubDir_data = 'share/' + projectName
-   installSubDir_doc  = 'share/doc/' + projectName
+   installSubDir_doc  = 'share/doc/' + projectName + '-' + meson.project_version()
    installSubDir_bin  = 'bin'
    # According to https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html#paths, .desktop files need to live
    # in one of the $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/.  (Note that $XDG_DATA_DIRS is a colon-separated list of directories,