diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d3d01f81a530f1f8bdde6966a13e29b73fc02334..7f0fee4ab2bbf6f3e7e07e7a44a6a183c3b20cfa 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ project(ALL
     VERSION "0.9.2"
     DESCRIPTION "A Loadbalacing Library"
     HOMEPAGE_URL "http://slms.pages.jsc.fz-juelich.de/websites/all-website/")
+set(ALL_SOVERSION 0)
 
 include(GNUInstallDirs)
 
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index f467699f8ef123120a6ec0d4a20fc0fa3bb3cef8..47f27f5384aecf3325b6571c8b80b26aafed8e68 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ set(ALL_HEADER_FILES
     ${ALL_INCLUDE_DIR}/ALL_Voronoi.hpp)
 
 add_library (ALL ALL.cpp ALL_fortran.cpp ${ALL_HEADER_FILES})
+set_target_properties(ALL PROPERTIES SOVERSION ${ALL_SOVERSION})
 
 if(CM_ALL_VTK_OUTPUT)
     target_include_directories(ALL PUBLIC ${VTK_INCLUDE_DIRS})
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ if (CM_ALL_FORTRAN)
     set(CMAKE_Fortran_MODULE_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/../modules)
     add_library (ALL_fortran ALL_module.F90)
     set_property(TARGET ALL_fortran PROPERTY LINKER_LANGUAGE Fortran)
+    set_target_properties(ALL_fortran PROPERTIES SOVERSION ${ALL_SOVERSION})
 
     target_include_directories(ALL_fortran PUBLIC ${MPI_Fortran_INCLUDE_PATH})
     target_include_directories(ALL_fortran