--- ricochet.orig	Fri Feb  9 03:23:19 2001
+++ ricochet	Fri Sep  7 09:03:59 2001
@@ -574,7 +574,8 @@
 
 sub initialize { 
     my $self = shift; 
-    my $rc = "$ENV{RICOCHET}" || "$ENV{HOME}/.ricochet"; $rc .= "/ricochetrc"; 
+    my $rc = "$ENV{RICOCHET}" || -d "$ENV{HOME}/.ricochet" ? "$ENV{HOME}/.ricochet" : "%%PREFIX%%/share/ricochet";
+    $rc .= "/ricochetrc"; 
     Carp::croak "** Ricochet configuration file $rc doesn't exist. Aborting.\n" unless -e $rc; 
     open (RC, $rc); 
     grep { 
