diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/default.nix
index 1e3c2bcd2eb..6fa4a6e0a4a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, meson, ninja, pkg-config, gettext
+{ lib, stdenv, substituteAll, fetchFromGitHub, meson, ninja, pkg-config, gettext
 , xmlto, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_45, libxslt
 , libstemmer, glib, xapian, libxml2, libyaml, gobject-introspection
 , pcre, itstool, gperf, vala, lmdb, libsoup
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "appstream";
-  version = "0.13.1";
+  version = "0.14.0";
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
 
@@ -14,9 +14,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     owner  = "ximion";
     repo   = "appstream";
     rev    = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "16nxaw4fx78maldi3kvr8fiwzhmy5276wd4x2fxny16zzf01098j";
+    sha256 = "sha256-iYqmQ1/58t3ZdJTxYLDc5jkTG1lMBtQWMFFsYsszH9Q=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # Fix hardcoded paths
+    (substituteAll {
+      src = ./fix-paths.patch;
+      libstemmer_includedir = "${lib.getDev libstemmer}/include";
+    })
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     meson ninja pkg-config gettext
     libxslt xmlto docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_45
@@ -25,14 +33,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ libstemmer pcre glib xapian libxml2 libyaml gperf lmdb libsoup ];
 
-  prePatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace meson.build \
-      --replace /usr/include ${libstemmer}/include
-
-    substituteInPlace data/meson.build \
-      --replace /etc $out/etc
-  '';
-
   mesonFlags = [
     "-Dapidocs=false"
     "-Ddocs=false"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/fix-paths.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/fix-paths.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0da72a78cbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/fix-paths.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
+index 1eb3dfb0..623b66ec 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ i18n.merge_file (
+ )
+ 
+ install_data ('appstream.conf',
+-              install_dir: get_option('sysconfdir'))
++              install_dir: get_option('prefix') / 'etc')
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index dc1fb1a5..5ee03b73 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -108,12 +108,12 @@ if get_option ('gir')
+     dependency('gobject-introspection-1.0', version: '>=1.56')
+ endif
+ 
+-stemmer_inc_dirs = include_directories(['/usr/include'])
++stemmer_inc_dirs = include_directories(['@libstemmer_includedir@'])
+ if get_option('stemming')
+     stemmer_lib = cc.find_library('stemmer', required: true)
+     if not cc.has_header('libstemmer.h')
+         if cc.has_header('libstemmer/libstemmer.h')
+-            stemmer_inc_dirs = include_directories('/usr/include/libstemmer')
++            stemmer_inc_dirs = include_directories('@libstemmer_includedir@/libstemmer')
+         else
+             error('Unable to find Snowball header "libstemmer.h". Please ensure libstemmer/Snowball is installed properly in order to continue.')
+         endif
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/qt.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/qt.nix
index 9ae1cce684a..0bcb4741ff1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/qt.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream/qt.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 mkDerivation {
   pname = "appstream-qt";
-  inherit (appstream) version src prePatch;
+  inherit (appstream) version src patches;
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];