diff --git a/gettext/linuxdeploy-plugin-gettext.sh b/gettext/linuxdeploy-plugin-gettext.sh
index 2a7e639..b4ae8c7 100755
--- a/gettext/linuxdeploy-plugin-gettext.sh
+++ b/gettext/linuxdeploy-plugin-gettext.sh
@@ -39,5 +39,5 @@ mkdir -p "$appdir"/apprun-hooks
 cat > "$appdir"/apprun-hooks/linuxdeploy-plugin-gettext.sh <<\EOF
 #! /bin/bash
 
-export TEXTDOMAINDIR="$APPDIR"/usr/share/locale:"$TEXTDOMAINDIR"
+export TEXTDOMAINDIR="$APPDIR"/usr/share/locale
 EOF