diff -up blender-2.57/intern/ghost/SConscript.syspath blender-2.57/intern/ghost/SConscript
--- blender-2.57/intern/ghost/SConscript.syspath	2011-04-16 21:13:21.413205002 +0200
+++ blender-2.57/intern/ghost/SConscript	2011-04-16 21:13:21.420205002 +0200
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ if window_system in ('linux2', 'openbsd3
             sources.remove('intern' + os.sep + f + 'Carbon.cpp')
         except ValueError:
             pass
-    defs += ['PREFIX=\\"/usr/local/\\"']  # XXX, make an option
+    defs += ['PREFIX=\\"/usr/\\"']  # XXX, make an option
     defs += ['WITH_X11_XINPUT']  # XXX, make an option
 
 elif window_system in ('win32-vc', 'win32-mingw', 'cygwin', 'linuxcross', 'win64-vc'):
diff -up blender-2.57/source/blender/blenfont/intern/blf_lang.c.syspath blender-2.57/source/blender/blenfont/intern/blf_lang.c
--- blender-2.57/source/blender/blenfont/intern/blf_lang.c.syspath	2011-04-14 17:19:49.000000000 +0200
+++ blender-2.57/source/blender/blenfont/intern/blf_lang.c	2011-04-16 21:26:46.734205021 +0200
@@ -68,15 +68,15 @@ static char global_encoding_name[32];
 
 void BLF_lang_init(void)
 {
-	char *messagepath= BLI_get_folder(BLENDER_DATAFILES, "locale");
-	
+        // char *messagepath= BLI_get_folder(BLENDER_DATAFILES, "locale");
+        char *messagepath = "/usr/share/locale";
+
 	BLI_strncpy(global_encoding_name, SYSTEM_ENCODING_DEFAULT, sizeof(global_encoding_name));
 	
 	if (messagepath)
 		BLI_strncpy(global_messagepath, messagepath, sizeof(global_messagepath));
 	else
 		global_messagepath[0]= '\0';
-	
 }
 
 /* XXX WARNING!!! IN osx somehow the previous function call jumps in this one??? (ton, ppc) */