diff --git a/tools/data/add_features_from_gff3_to_annotations.pl b/tools/data/add_features_from_gff3_to_annotations.pl
index f41514226d..8787fbd9d9 100755
--- a/tools/data/add_features_from_gff3_to_annotations.pl
+++ b/tools/data/add_features_from_gff3_to_annotations.pl
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 use warnings;
 
 use FindBin qw($RealBin);
-use lib "$RealBin/../../jbrowse/src/perl5/lib/perl5";
+use lib "$RealBin/../../jbrowse/src/perl5";
 
 use File::Basename;
 use lib dirname($0);
diff --git a/tools/data/add_transcripts_from_gff3_to_annotations.pl b/tools/data/add_transcripts_from_gff3_to_annotations.pl
index d366fafe98..6a871f34ea 100755
--- a/tools/data/add_transcripts_from_gff3_to_annotations.pl
+++ b/tools/data/add_transcripts_from_gff3_to_annotations.pl
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 use warnings;
 
 use FindBin qw($RealBin);
-use lib "$RealBin/../../jbrowse/src/perl5/lib/perl5";
+use lib "$RealBin/../../jbrowse/src/perl5";
 
 use File::Basename;
 use lib dirname($0);