diff -upr a/nototools/unicode_data.py b/nototools/unicode_data.py
--- a/nototools/unicode_data.py	2016-07-18 23:42:00.000000000 +0200
+++ b/nototools/unicode_data.py	2016-12-16 01:27:55.783284557 +0100
@@ -401,8 +401,7 @@ def all_scripts():
   return frozenset(_script_code_to_long_name.keys())
 
 
-_DATA_DIR_PATH = path.join(path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__)),
-                           os.pardir, "third_party", "ucd")
+_DATA_DIR_PATH = "/usr/share/nototools/third_party/ucd"
 
 
 def open_unicode_data_file(data_file_name):
Only in b/nototools: unicode_data.py.orig