diff --git a/install/seafile-install.sh b/install/seafile-install.sh
index 873f449..7655e26 100644
--- a/install/seafile-install.sh
+++ b/install/seafile-install.sh
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ LATEST_FILE=$(curl -s "https://download.seadrive.org/" | \
   sort -r | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}')
 
 $STD su - seafile -c "wget -qc https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/download.seadrive.org/$LATEST_FILE"
-$STD su - seafile -c "tar -xzf $LATEST_FILE -C /opt/seafile/"
+$STD su - seafile -c "tar -xzf $LATEST_FILE --strip-components=1 -C /opt/seafile/"
 $STD su - seafile -c "expect <<EOF
 spawn bash /opt/seafile/setup-seafile-mysql.sh
 expect {