diff --git a/makfa b/makfa
index 488007e..a19a5c8 100755
--- a/makfa
+++ b/makfa
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ class Type(Command):
 
 class Updater(object):
 
-    def __init__(self, lang='en', filename=os.path.expanduser('~/makfa.dump')):
+    def __init__(self, lang='en', filename='/usr/share/makfa/makfa.dump'):
         self.db = {'order': [], 'entries': {}}
         url = 'http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/export/xml-export.html?lang=%s'
         tree = etree.parse(urllib.urlopen(url % lang))
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ class Filter(object):
 
 class Dictionary(object):
 
-    def __init__(self, filename=os.path.expanduser('~/makfa.dump')):
+    def __init__(self, filename='/usr/share/makfa/makfa.dump'):
         try:
             self._db = pickle.load(open(filename))
         except: