diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
deleted file mode 100644
index 61b5d137a7bbeae9fde79d4918590e71bf93d273..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# the ./man/Makefile.am for gtranslator manual pages
-
-gtranslator_man_dir = $(mandir)/man1
-
-gtranslator.1.gz: gtranslator.1
-	gzip -9 < gtranslator.1 > gtranslator.1.gz
-
-gtranslator_man__DATA = \
-	gtranslator.1.gz 
-
-CLEANFILES = $(gtranslator_man__DATA)
-
-EXTRA_DIST = \
-	gtranslator.1.in 
-
--include $(top_srcdir)/git.mk
diff --git a/man/gtranslator.1.in b/man/gtranslator.1
similarity index 96%
rename from man/gtranslator.1.in
rename to man/gtranslator.1
index a8ac14dc560bbf16a8cffa68b4760ee8a88423a0..884d0e7fe3610b6a11350cb55e24ce35c96735ed 100644
--- a/man/gtranslator.1.in
+++ b/man/gtranslator.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH "gtranslator" "1" "gtranslator @VERSION@ -- @MY_DATE@" "gtranslator" "GNOME programs"
+.TH "gtranslator" "1" "gtranslator" "gtranslator" "GNOME programs"
 .SH "NAME"
 gtranslator \-\- a comfortable gettext po file editor with many bells and whistles.
 
@@ -109,18 +109,15 @@ sized to \*(lq460x320\*(rq if possible \-\- if gtranslator needs more size for i
 
 .SH "LICENSE"
 gtranslator is distributed under the 
-.B GNU GPL V 2.0 
+.B GNU GPL V 3.0 
 or greater.
 
 .SH "AUTHORS"
 Ross Golder <ross@kabalak.net>, Fatih Demir <kabalak@kabalak.net> (previously also: Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis@kabalak.net>, Thomas Ziehmer <thomas@kabalak.net>, Kevin Vandersloot <kfv101@psu.edu> and Peeter Vois <peeter@kabalak.net>).
 .SH "WEBSITE"
-.B http://www.gtranslator.org
+.B https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gtranslator
 
 .SH "BUGREPORTS"
 You can deliver bug reports to the gtranslator development team to our bug base via
-.B http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtranslator
+.B https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtranslator/issues
 .
-
-.SH "VERSION"
-gtranslator @VERSION@ man\-page
diff --git a/man/meson.build b/man/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb2d647051d866431271e84bb1db011dd94632a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+install_man('gtranslator.1')
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 321ff9e4bf189c07d99e58f4760e8ef79bc931e0..b01631553c3bf40765ee6106c4673e2be3c2d0d6 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -148,8 +148,7 @@ subdir('data')
 subdir('src')
 subdir('po')
 subdir('help')
-
-#subdir('man')
+subdir('man')
 
 if enable_gtk_doc
   subdir('doc/reference')