diff --git a/tinkerparser/TINKERCommon.py b/tinkerparser/TINKERCommon.py
index 320cc3ab883219265198175c4875c7115a7e6e18..9724dd2001f57e92512b98be7627ec72107dc1d8 100644
--- a/tinkerparser/TINKERCommon.py
+++ b/tinkerparser/TINKERCommon.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 
 import logging
 import os
-import metainfo
 
 PARSERNAME = "TINKER"
 PROGRAMNAME = "tinker"
@@ -27,9 +26,7 @@ PARSER_INFO_DEFAULT = {
         'version': PARSERVERSION
 }
 
-META_INFO_PATH = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(
-    os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(metainfo.__file__)),
-    PARSERMETANAME+".nomadmetainfo.json"))
+META_INFO_PATH = PARSERMETANAME+".nomadmetainfo.json"
 
 LOGGER = logging.getLogger("nomad."+PROGRAMNAME+"Parser")