diff --git a/Modules/install-jaspModuleInstaller.R.in b/Modules/install-jaspModuleInstaller.R.in
index 13f7cb5a04..a446cd4d68 100644
--- a/Modules/install-jaspModuleInstaller.R.in
+++ b/Modules/install-jaspModuleInstaller.R.in
@@ -94,7 +94,9 @@ renv::restore(lockfile = lf, library = .libPaths(), rebuild = pkgName)
 
 
 cat("jaspModuleInstaller::writeModuleStatusObject\n")
-jaspModuleInstaller::writeModuleStatusObject("@PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR@", oldModuleStatusObject, "@MODULES_BINARY_PATH@")
+modulesToInstallRaw <- "@JASP_COMMON_MODULES@;@JASP_EXTRA_MODULES@"
+modulesToInstall <- strsplit(modulesToInstallRaw, ";", fixed = TRUE)[[1]] # should perhaps use CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
+jaspModuleInstaller::writeModuleStatusObject("@PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR@", oldModuleStatusObject, "@MODULES_BINARY_PATH@", modulesToInstall)
 
 #This is necessary because of conflicts with Matrix dep of base R lib.
 #Can be removed when a new version of R updates its Matrix