diff -up cppcheck-1.79/gui/CMakeLists.txt.translations cppcheck-1.79/gui/CMakeLists.txt
--- cppcheck-1.79/gui/CMakeLists.txt.translations	2017-05-18 05:09:44.643624491 +0200
+++ cppcheck-1.79/gui/CMakeLists.txt	2017-05-18 05:09:44.651624352 +0200
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ if (BUILD_GUI)
     target_link_libraries(cppcheck-gui tinyxml2)
 
     install(TARGETS cppcheck-gui RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_BINDIR} COMPONENT applications)
-    install(FILES ${qms} DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_BINDIR} COMPONENT applications)
+    install(FILES ${qms} DESTINATION share/${PROJECT_NAME}/lang/ COMPONENT applications)
 
     install(FILES cppcheck-gui.desktop DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/applications)
 
diff -up cppcheck-1.79/gui/translationhandler.cpp.translations cppcheck-1.79/gui/translationhandler.cpp
--- cppcheck-1.79/gui/translationhandler.cpp.translations	2017-05-18 05:09:44.649624387 +0200
+++ cppcheck-1.79/gui/translationhandler.cpp	2017-05-18 05:14:16.716915424 +0200
@@ -116,15 +116,7 @@ bool TranslationHandler::SetLanguage(con
     if (datadir.isEmpty())
         datadir = appPath;
 
-    QString translationFile;
-    if (QFile::exists(datadir + "/lang/" + mTranslations[index].mFilename + ".qm"))
-        translationFile = datadir + "/lang/" + mTranslations[index].mFilename + ".qm";
-
-    else if (QFile::exists(datadir + "/" + mTranslations[index].mFilename + ".qm"))
-        translationFile = datadir + "/" + mTranslations[index].mFilename + ".qm";
-
-    else
-        translationFile = appPath + "/" + mTranslations[index].mFilename + ".qm";
+    QString translationFile("/usr/share/CppCheck/lang/" + mTranslations[index].mFilename + ".qm");
 
     if (!mTranslator->load(translationFile) && !failure) {
         //If it failed, lets check if the default file exists