diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index ef095471..50695c78 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ Lebedev, Andrey
 Mrnjavac, Teo <teo.m@cern.ch>
 Neskovic, Gvozden
 Richter, Matthias
+Tacke, Christian
 Uhlig, Florian
 Wenzel, Sandro
diff --git a/cmake/FindPMIx.cmake b/cmake/FindPMIx.cmake
index 02dd917a..fdb48aaa 100644
--- a/cmake/FindPMIx.cmake
+++ b/cmake/FindPMIx.cmake
@@ -6,28 +6,35 @@
 #                  copied verbatim in the file "LICENSE"                       #
 ################################################################################
 
+
+# The "lib/${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}/pmix" part in all
+# the PATH_SUFFIXES is here to be able to find Debian's
+# libpmix-dev package. It installs everything below
+# /usr/lib/${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}/pmix
+
+
 find_path(PMIx_INCLUDE_DIR
   NAMES pmix.h
   HINTS ${PMIX_ROOT} $ENV{PMIX_ROOT}
-  PATH_SUFFIXES include
+  PATH_SUFFIXES include lib/${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}/pmix/include
 )
 
 find_path(PMIx_LIBRARY_DIR
   NAMES libpmix.dylib libpmix.so
   HINTS ${PMIX_ROOT} $ENV{PMIX_ROOT}
-  PATH_SUFFIXES lib lib64
+  PATH_SUFFIXES lib lib64 lib/${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}/pmix/lib
 )
 
 find_library(PMIx_LIBRARY_SHARED
   NAMES libpmix.dylib libpmix.so
   HINTS ${PMIX_ROOT} $ENV{PMIX_ROOT}
-  PATH_SUFFIXES lib lib64
+  PATH_SUFFIXES lib lib64 lib/${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}/pmix/lib
 )
 
 find_file(PMIx_VERSION_FILE
   NAMES pmix_version.h
   HINTS ${PMIX_ROOT} $ENV{PMIX_ROOT}
-  PATH_SUFFIXES include
+  PATH_SUFFIXES include lib/${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}/pmix/include
 )
 
 file(READ "${PMIx_VERSION_FILE}" __version_raw)