diff --git a/scripts/download-sass.sh b/scripts/download-sass.sh
index 98a2029..d138561 100755
--- a/scripts/download-sass.sh
+++ b/scripts/download-sass.sh
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ set -e
 # change to the desired release tag and sha256 checksum
 # <https://github.com/sass/dart-sass/releases/>
 dart_release_tag=${dart_release_tag:-1.56.1}
-dart_tarball_checksum=${dart_tarball_checksum:-e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855}
+dart_tarball_checksum=${dart_tarball_checksum:-a5cf9e1f5db9456faffa440779a21a49cee65755c21617b75d1367d11448c59b}
 
 dart_tarball_filename=dart-sass-"$dart_release_tag"-linux-x64.tar.gz
 dart_tarball_url=https://github.com/sass/dart-sass/releases/download/"$dart_release_tag"/"$dart_tarball_filename"
 
-curl -s -o "$dart_tarball_filename" "$dart_tarball_url"
+curl -sSL -o "$dart_tarball_filename" "$dart_tarball_url"
 
 if ! sha256sum -c <(echo "$dart_tarball_checksum $dart_tarball_filename"); then
     echo "bad checksum for $dart_tarball_filename"
@@ -23,9 +23,12 @@ fi
 user_bin_dir=$HOME/.local/bin
 
 mkdir -p "$user_bin_dir"
-tar -x -f "$dart_tarball_filename" -C  "$user_bin_dir" dart-sass/sass
 
-rm -r "$dart_tarball_filename" dart-sass
+tempdir=$(mktemp -d)
+
+tar -x -f "$dart_tarball_filename" -C "$tempdir" dart-sass/sass
+mv "$tempdir"/dart-sass/sass "$user_bin_dir"
+rm -r "$tempdir" "$dart_tarball_filename"
 
 echo "sass was successfully installed! make sure $user_bin_dir is in your PATH"
 echo "run this command to add it to your path now:"