diff --git a/Code/Mantid/Build/CMake/LinuxPackageScripts.cmake b/Code/Mantid/Build/CMake/LinuxPackageScripts.cmake
index d3ddda676e5d..b3c39effafcc 100644
--- a/Code/Mantid/Build/CMake/LinuxPackageScripts.cmake
+++ b/Code/Mantid/Build/CMake/LinuxPackageScripts.cmake
@@ -23,9 +23,19 @@ endif()
 set ( CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${LIB_DIR};${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${PLUGINS_DIR};${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${PVPLUGINS_DIR} )
 
 ###########################################################################
-# LD_PRELOAD libraries
+# LD_PRELOAD TCMalloc
 ###########################################################################
-set ( EXTRA_LDPRELOAD_LIBS "${TCMALLOC_LIBRARIES}" )
+# User systems will only have the libraries and not the symbolic link
+# so we must set the preload to the versioned library. We will assume it is
+# in the same location as the system that the package was built on
+if ( TCMALLOC_LIBRARIES )
+  execute_process ( COMMAND readlink --no-newline --canonicalize-existing ${TCMALLOC_LIBRARIES}
+                    OUTPUT_VARIABLE TCMALLOC_PRELOAD
+                    RESULT_VARIABLE READLINK_RESULT )
+  if ( READLINK_RESULT EQUAL 1 )
+    message ( FATAL_ERROR "Unable to find real file that tcmalloc symlink, ${TCMALLOC_LIBRARIES}, points to." )
+  endif()
+endif()
 
 ###########################################################################
 # Environment scripts (profile.d)
@@ -84,10 +94,12 @@ set ( POST_UNINSTALL_FILE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/postrm )
 
 if ( "${UNIX_DIST}" MATCHES "RedHatEnterprise" OR "${UNIX_DIST}" MATCHES "^Fedora" ) # RHEL/Fedora
   if ( "${UNIX_CODENAME}" MATCHES "Santiago" ) # el6
-    set ( WRAPPER_COMMAND "scl enable mantidlibs" )
+    set ( WRAPPER_PREFIX "scl enable mantidlibs \"" )
+    set ( WRAPPER_POSTFIX "\"" )
     set ( EXTRA_LDPATH "/usr/lib64/paraview" )
   else()
-    set ( WRAPPER_COMMAND "eval" )
+    set ( WRAPPER_PREFIX "" )
+    set ( WRAPPER_POSTFIX "" )
   endif()
 
   if ( NOT MPI_BUILD )
@@ -106,7 +118,8 @@ if ( "${UNIX_DIST}" MATCHES "RedHatEnterprise" OR "${UNIX_DIST}" MATCHES "^Fedor
     set ( CPACK_RPM_POST_UNINSTALL_SCRIPT_FILE ${POST_UNINSTALL_FILE} )
   endif()
 elseif ( "${UNIX_DIST}" MATCHES "Ubuntu" )
-  set ( WRAPPER_COMMAND "eval" )
+  set ( WRAPPER_PREFIX "" )
+  set ( WRAPPER_POSTFIX "" )
 
   if ( NOT MPI_BUILD )
     configure_file ( ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}/Packaging/deb/scripts/deb_pre_inst.in
diff --git a/Code/Mantid/Build/CMake/Packaging/launch_mantidplot.sh.in b/Code/Mantid/Build/CMake/Packaging/launch_mantidplot.sh.in
index 49a8fbc0321c..94ac4695d25a 100644
--- a/Code/Mantid/Build/CMake/Packaging/launch_mantidplot.sh.in
+++ b/Code/Mantid/Build/CMake/Packaging/launch_mantidplot.sh.in
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SCRIPTFILE=$(readlink -f "$0")
 INSTALLDIR=$(echo $SCRIPTFILE | sed -r -e 's|^(.*)/(.*)$|\1|g') #.* is greedy and eats up until the final slash
 
 # Define extra libraries and load paths
-LOCAL_PRELOAD=$(readlink -f @EXTRA_LDPRELOAD_LIBS@)
+LOCAL_PRELOAD=@TCMALLOC_PRELOAD@
 if [ -n "${LD_PRELOAD}" ]; then
     LOCAL_PRELOAD=${LOCAL_PRELOAD}:${LD_PRELOAD}
 fi
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ else
 fi
 
 # Launch
-LD_PRELOAD=${LOCAL_PRELOAD} TCMALLOC_RELEASE_RATE=${TCM_RELEASE} LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LOCAL_LDPATH} @WRAPPER_COMMAND@ "$INSTALLDIR/@MANTIDPLOT_EXEC@ $*" 
+LD_PRELOAD=${LOCAL_PRELOAD} TCMALLOC_RELEASE_RATE=${TCM_RELEASE} LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LOCAL_LDPATH} @WRAPPER_PREFIX@$INSTALLDIR/@MANTIDPLOT_EXEC@ $*@WRAPPER_POSTFIX@