diff --git a/bin/lein b/bin/lein

index 01fab1e5..2cc2d500 100755

--- a/bin/lein

+++ b/bin/lein

@@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ if $cygwin; then

 fi

 LEIN_JAR="${LEIN_JAR:-${LEIN_HOME}/self-installs/leiningen-${LEIN_VERSION}-standalone.jar}"

+LEIN_JAR="/usr/share/java/leiningen/leiningen-$LEIN_VERSION-standalone.jar"

+export LEIN_JVM_OPTS="-Duser.home=/var/lib/leiningen"

 # normalize $0 on certain BSDs

 if [ "$(dirname "$0")" = "." ]; then