diff --git a/content/databases/mysql/mysql-inst.xml b/content/databases/mysql/mysql-inst.xml
index 77dafc892d..d65bed2afc 100644
--- a/content/databases/mysql/mysql-inst.xml
+++ b/content/databases/mysql/mysql-inst.xml
@@ -9,21 +9,17 @@ useradd -c mysql -d /dev/null -g mysql -s /bin/false mysql</command></userinput>
 
 <para>Build and install <application>My<acronym>SQL</acronym></application> by running the following commands:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr \
-            --sysconfdir=/etc \
-            --libexecdir=/usr/sbin \
-            --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql \
-            --enable-thread-safe-client \
-            --enable-local-infile \
-            --enable-assembler \
-            --without-debug \
-            --without-bench &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
+    --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql \
+    --enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile \
+    --enable-assembler --without-debug --without-bench &amp;&amp;
 make testdir=/usr/lib/mysql/mysql-test &amp;&amp;
 make testdir=/usr/lib/mysql/mysql-test install</command></userinput></screen>
 
 <para>Packages that depend on <application>MySQL</application> need the shared
 libraries available at run-time:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput><command>ln -sf /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient{,_r}.so* /usr/lib</command></userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput><command>cd /usr/lib &amp;&amp;
+ln -sf mysql/libmysqlclient{,_r}.so* .</command></userinput></screen>
 
 </sect2>
diff --git a/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-config.xml b/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-config.xml
index 8c6742d893..cd0978bf76 100644
--- a/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-config.xml
+++ b/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-config.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ file to your <filename class="directory">~/.mplayer</filename> directory.  For e
 </command></userinput></screen>
 otherwise
 <screen><userinput><command>tar xjvf ../font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share/mplayer/font &amp;&amp;
-ln -sf /usr/share/mplayer/font/font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial-<replaceable>[font size]</replaceable>-iso-8859-1/* /usr/share/mplayer/font</command></userinput></screen>
+cd /usr/share/mplayer/font &amp;&amp;
+ln -sf font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial-<replaceable>[font size]</replaceable>-iso-8859-1/* .</command></userinput></screen>
 You can chose your font size of 14, 18, 24 or 28.
 </para>