diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/electron/update.py b/pkgs/development/tools/electron/update.py
index adcf986ec0ee..60b5a43d6674 100755
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/electron/update.py
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/electron/update.py
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ from codecs import iterdecode
 from datetime import datetime
 from urllib.request import urlopen
 
+os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+
 depot_tools_checkout = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
 subprocess.check_call([
     "nix-prefetch-git",