diff --git a/src/basic/path-util.c b/src/basic/path-util.c
index 3bde1d1e01b..056fa7d6332 100644
--- a/src/basic/path-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/path-util.c
@@ -882,7 +882,9 @@ int systemd_installation_has_version(const char *root, unsigned minimal_version)
                         * for Gentoo which does a merge without making /lib a symlink.
                         */
                        "lib/systemd/libsystemd-shared-*.so\0"
-                       "usr/lib/systemd/libsystemd-shared-*.so\0") {
+                       "lib64/systemd/libsystemd-shared-*.so\0"
+                       "usr/lib/systemd/libsystemd-shared-*.so\0"
+                       "usr/lib64/systemd/libsystemd-shared-*.so\0") {
 
                 _cleanup_strv_free_ char **names = NULL;
                 _cleanup_free_ char *path = NULL;