diff --git a/1-setup.sh b/1-setup.sh
index 679da42..3b33760 100755
--- a/1-setup.sh
+++ b/1-setup.sh
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ echo "-------------------------------------------------"
 echo "Changing the makeflags for "$nc" cores."
 TOTALMEM=$(cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i 'memtotal' | grep -o '[[:digit:]]*')
 if [[  $TOTALMEM -gt 8000000 ]]; then
-sudo sed -i 's/#MAKEFLAGS="-j2"/MAKEFLAGS="-j$nc"/g' /etc/makepkg.conf
+sed -i "s/#MAKEFLAGS=\"-j2\"/MAKEFLAGS=\"-j$nc\"/g" /etc/makepkg.conf
 echo "Changing the compression settings for "$nc" cores."
-sudo sed -i 's/COMPRESSXZ=(xz -c -z -)/COMPRESSXZ=(xz -c -T $nc -z -)/g' /etc/makepkg.conf
+sed -i "s/COMPRESSXZ=(xz -c -z -)/COMPRESSXZ=(xz -c -T $nc -z -)/g" /etc/makepkg.conf
 fi
 echo "-------------------------------------------------"
 echo "       Setup Language to US and set locale       "