diff --git a/doc/install.asciidoc b/doc/install.asciidoc
index c8b6c2248..6e3eb7b25 100644
--- a/doc/install.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/install.asciidoc
@@ -443,6 +443,14 @@ caveats:
   (`export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/openssl-1.0` on Archlinux) before starting
   qutebrowser if you want SSL to work in certain downloads (e.g. for
   `:adblock-update` or `:download`).
+  * On Ubuntu (tested on 18.04), you will need to install the `libssl1.0.0`
+    package (`apt install libssl1.0.0`). Then, in the qutebrowser git
+    repository, create a directory named `libssl` (`mkdir libssl`), and link
+    `libcrypto.so.1.0.0` and `libssl.so.1.0.0` into it without the versioning
+    part in their names (`ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
+    libssl/libcrypto.so` and `ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0
+    libssl/libssl.so`). Now you can start qutebrowser issuing `export
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/libssl` beforehand.
 - It comes with a QtWebEngine compiled without proprietary codec support (such
   as h.264).