diff --git a/utils/procps-ng/Makefile b/utils/procps-ng/Makefile
index 719264652..d9af76212 100644
--- a/utils/procps-ng/Makefile
+++ b/utils/procps-ng/Makefile
@@ -30,15 +30,19 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS += --enable-skill
 # most of these have alternatives provided by busybox applets
 PROCPS_APPLETS := \
     free kill pgrep pkill pmap ps pwdx skill slabtop \
-    snice tload top uptime vmstat w watch
+    snice sysctl tload top uptime vmstat w watch
 
 # procps-ng will be configured with "--bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin" and
 # as such executables will be installed there by default, but some of them need
 # to reside in locations such as /bin and /sbin to be in accordance with
 # busybox alternatives which is also other distributions like debian and centos
 # are doing
-PROCPS_APPLETS_DIR_bin:=kill ps watch
-procps-applets-dir=$(if $(filter $(PROCPS_APPLETS_DIR_bin),$(1)),/bin,/usr/bin)
+PROCPS_APPLETS_SRC_DIR_SBIN:=sysctl
+procps-applets-src-dir=$(if $(filter $(PROCPS_APPLETS_SRC_DIR_SBIN),$(1)),/usr/sbin,/usr/bin)
+
+PROCPS_APPLETS_DIR_BIN:=kill ps watch
+PROCPS_APPLETS_DIR_SBIN:=sysctl
+procps-applets-dir=$(if $(filter $(PROCPS_APPLETS_DIR_BIN),$(1)),/bin,$(if $(filter $(PROCPS_APPLETS_DIR_SBIN),$(1)),/sbin,/usr/bin))
 
 define Package/procps-ng/Default
   SECTION:=utils
@@ -81,7 +85,6 @@ define GenPlugin
 endef
 
 $(foreach a,$(PROCPS_APPLETS),$(eval $(call GenPlugin,procps-ng-$(a),$(a),$(call procps-applets-dir,$(a)))))
-$(eval $(call GenPlugin,procps-ng-sysctl,sysctl,/usr/sbin))
 
 MAKE_FLAGS += \
 	CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS)" \
@@ -93,20 +96,14 @@ define Package/procps-ng/install
 	$(CP) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/lib/libprocps.so* $(1)/usr/lib/
 endef
 
-define Package/procps-ng-sysctl/install
-	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/sbin
-	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/sbin/sysctl $(1)/usr/sbin
-endef
-
 define BuildPlugin
   define Package/$(1)/install
-	$(INSTALL_DIR) $$(1)$(3)
-	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/bin/$(2) $$(1)$(3)/$(1)
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $$(1)$(4)
+	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)$(3)/$(2) $$(1)$(4)/$(1)
   endef
 
   $$(eval $$(call BuildPackage,$(1)))
 endef
 
-$(foreach a,$(PROCPS_APPLETS),$(eval $(call BuildPlugin,procps-ng-$(a),$(a),$(call procps-applets-dir,$(a)))))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,procps-ng-sysctl))
+$(foreach a,$(PROCPS_APPLETS),$(eval $(call BuildPlugin,procps-ng-$(a),$(a),$(call procps-applets-src-dir,$(a)),$(call procps-applets-dir,$(a)))))
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,procps-ng))