diff -up translate-toolkit-1.2.1/translate/tools/poterminology.py.stoplist translate-toolkit-1.2.1/translate/tools/poterminology.py
--- translate-toolkit-1.2.1/translate/tools/poterminology.py.stoplist	2008-12-06 14:13:22.000000000 +0200
+++ translate-toolkit-1.2.1/translate/tools/poterminology.py	2008-12-06 14:13:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ def main():
     parser.stoprelist = []
     parser.stopfoldtitle = True
     parser.stopignorecase = False
-    parser.defaultstopfile = file_discovery.get_abs_data_filename('stoplist-en')
+    parser.defaultstopfile = '/usr/share/translate-toolkit/stoplist-en'
     parser.add_option("-S", "--stopword-list", type="string", metavar="STOPFILE", 
         action="callback", callback=parse_stopword_file,
         help="read stopword (term exclusion) list from STOPFILE (default %s)" % parser.defaultstopfile,