diff --git a/dropbox.in b/dropbox.in
index 36a8604..2748194 100644
--- a/dropbox.in
+++ b/dropbox.in
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ DROPBOX_DIST_PATH = "%s/.dropbox-dist" % PARENT_DIR
 DROPBOXD_PATH = os.path.join(DROPBOX_DIST_PATH, "dropboxd")
 DESKTOP_FILE = "/usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktop"
 
+# DROPBOX_DIST_PATH and DROPBOXD_PATH are reassigned to /opt/dropbox and /opt/dropbox/dropboxd if path does not exist
+DROPBOX_INSTALL_PATH = "/opt/dropbox"
+if not os.path.exists(DROPBOXD_PATH) and os.path.exists(os.path.join(DROPBOX_INSTALL_PATH, "dropboxd")):
+    DROPBOX_DIST_PATH = DROPBOX_INSTALL_PATH
+    DROPBOXD_PATH = os.path.join(DROPBOX_DIST_PATH, "dropboxd")
+
 enc = locale.getpreferredencoding()
 
 # Available from https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc