diff --git a/srcpkgs/tesseract/files/tesseract.sh b/srcpkgs/tesseract/files/tesseract.sh
index 896d571fc1d..36c3fdd0d5e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tesseract/files/tesseract.sh
+++ b/srcpkgs/tesseract/files/tesseract.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 TESS_BIN=/usr/bin/
-TESS_DATA=/usr/share/tesseract-game/
+TESS_DATA=/usr/share/tesseract/
 TESS_OPTIONS="-u$HOME/.tesseract"
 cd "$TESS_DATA"
 exec "$TESS_BIN/tesseract-client" "$TESS_OPTIONS" "$@"