diff --git a/Core/build.xml b/Core/build.xml
index 655e756c25..9fb2bedd6e 100644
--- a/Core/build.xml
+++ b/Core/build.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
     <description>Builds, tests, and runs the project org.sleuthkit.autopsy.core</description>
     <import file="nbproject/build-impl.xml"/>
     <import file="../BootstrapIvy.xml"/>
-    
+    <import file="../TSK_VERSION.xml"/>
+     
      
     <property name="thirdparty.dir" value="${basedir}/../thirdparty" />
     <property name="modules.dir" value="${basedir}/release/modules/" />
@@ -18,8 +19,7 @@
         </copy>
     </target>
 	
-	<property name="VERSION" value="4.6.0"/>
-        <replaceregexp file="${basedir}/../preinstall.sh" match="VERSION=(.*)" replace="VERSION=${VERSION}" byline="true"/>
+    <replaceregexp file="${basedir}/../unix_setup.sh" match="TSK_VERSION=(.*)" replace="TSK_VERSION=${TSK_VERSION}" byline="true"/>
     <target name="get-thirdparty-dependencies" description="get third-party dependencies"> 
         <!--Copy openCV dependencies to release-->
         <copy todir="${modules.dir}" >
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
     
     <target name="getTSKJars" depends="findTSK">
         <property environment="env"/>
-        <copy file="${env.TSK_HOME}/bindings/java/dist/sleuthkit-postgresql-${VERSION}.jar" 
-              tofile="${ext.dir}/sleuthkit-postgresql-${VERSION}.jar"/>
+        <copy file="${env.TSK_HOME}/bindings/java/dist/sleuthkit-postgresql-${TSK_VERSION}.jar" 
+              tofile="${ext.dir}/sleuthkit-postgresql-${TSK_VERSION}.jar"/>
         <copy file="${env.TSK_HOME}/bindings/java/lib/sqlite-jdbc-3.8.11.jar"
               tofile="${ext.dir}/sqlite-jdbc-3.8.11.jar"/>
         <copy file="${env.TSK_HOME}/bindings/java/lib/postgresql-9.4.1211.jre7.jar" 
diff --git a/TSK_VERSION.xml b/TSK_VERSION.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..544d73ea7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TSK_VERSION.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<project name="TSK_VERSION">
+    <property name="TSK_VERSION" value="4.6.0"/>
+</project>
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 70ec4cb290..396268f50e 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <description>Builds the module suite Autopsy 4.</description>
 	
     <import file="nbproject/build-impl.xml"/>
-    
+    <import file="${basedir}/TSK_VERSION.xml"/>
     <!-- IMPORTANT: nbproject/platform.properties has a netbeans-plat-version property that MUST be kept in sync (manually) -->
     <property name="netbeans-plat-version" value="8.2" />
     <property name="nbplatform.active.dir" value="${basedir}/netbeans-plat/${netbeans-plat-version}" />
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
         <if>
             <equals arg1="${os.family}" arg2="unix"/>
             <then>
-                <copy file="${basedir}/preinstall.sh" tofile="${zip-tmp}/${app.name}/preinstall.sh"/>
+                <copy file="${basedir}/unix_setup.sh" tofile="${zip-tmp}/${app.name}/unix_setup.sh"/>
             </then>
         </if>
         <if>
diff --git a/preinstall.sh b/unix_setup.sh
similarity index 80%
rename from preinstall.sh
rename to unix_setup.sh
index 2c1088fabd..41c57355de 100644
--- a/preinstall.sh
+++ b/unix_setup.sh
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ else
 	echo "run the command: sudo apt-get install testdisk"
 	exit 1
 fi
-VERSION=4.6.0
-sleuthkit_jar_filepath=/usr/share/java/sleuthkit-$VERSION.jar;
-ext_jar_filepath=$PWD/autopsy/modules/ext/sleuthkit-postgresql-$VERSION.jar;
-if [[ -f "$sleuthkit_jar_filepath" ]] && [[ -f "$ext_jar_filepath" ]]; then
+TSK_VERSION=4.6.0
+sleuthkit_jar_filepath=/usr/share/java/sleuthkit-$TSK_VERSION.jar;
+ext_jar_filepath=$PWD/autopsy/modules/ext/sleuthkit-postgresql-$TSK_VERSION.jar;
+if [[ -f "$sleuthkit_jar_filepath" ]]; then
 	echo "$sleuthkit_jar_filepath found"
 	echo "copying $sleuthkit_jar_filepath to the autopsy directory"
     	echo "deleting $ext_jar_filepath"
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ if [[ -f "$sleuthkit_jar_filepath" ]] && [[ -f "$ext_jar_filepath" ]]; then
     	fi
 else
 	echo "$sleuthkit_jar_filepath not found, please install the sleuthkit-java.deb file"
-	echo "run the command: sudo apt install ./sleuthkit-java_4.6.0-1_amd64.deb inside the debian file directory"
 	exit 1
 fi