diff -up alienarena-7.10/source/qcommon/files.c.fhs alienarena-7.10/source/qcommon/files.c
--- alienarena-7.10/source/qcommon/files.c.fhs	2007-10-08 11:27:28.000000000 -0400
+++ alienarena-7.10/source/qcommon/files.c	2007-11-08 10:45:25.000000000 -0500
@@ -735,6 +735,7 @@ void FS_SetGamedir (char *dir)
 	{
 		Cvar_FullSet ("gamedir", dir, CVAR_SERVERINFO|CVAR_NOSET);
 		FS_AddGameDirectory (va("%s/%s", fs_basedir->string, dir) );
+		FS_AddGameDirectory (va("/usr/share/alienarena/%s", dir) );
 #ifdef __unix__
 		FS_AddHomeAsGameDirectory(dir);
 #endif
@@ -987,6 +988,7 @@ void FS_InitFilesystem (void)
 	// start up with baseq2 by default
 	//
 	FS_AddGameDirectory (va("%s/"BASEDIRNAME, fs_basedir->string) );
+	FS_AddGameDirectory (va("/usr/share/alienarena/"BASEDIRNAME) ); 
 
 #ifdef __unix__
 	FS_AddHomeAsGameDirectory(BASEDIRNAME);