diff -ru a/src/cmd/godoc/godoc.go b/src/cmd/godoc/godoc.go
--- a/src/cmd/godoc/godoc.go	2011-09-22 10:15:24.000000000 +0200
+++ b/src/cmd/godoc/godoc.go	2011-09-22 10:25:35.697267470 +0200
@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@
 	pkgHandler httpHandler
 )
 
+const (
+	docroot = "/usr/share/doc/packages/go-doc/doc"
+	srcroot = "/usr/share/go/"
+)
+
 func initHandlers() {
 	paths := filepath.SplitList(*pkgPath)
 	for _, t := range build.Path {
@@ -90,9 +95,9 @@
 	}
 	fsMap.Init(paths)
 
-	fileServer = http.FileServer(fsHttp)
-	cmdHandler = httpHandler{"/cmd/", filepath.Join(*goroot, "src", "cmd"), false}
-	pkgHandler = httpHandler{"/pkg/", filepath.Join(*goroot, "src", "pkg"), true}
+	fileServer = http.FileServer(http.Dir(docroot))
+	cmdHandler = httpHandler{"/cmd/", filepath.Join(srcroot, "src/cmd"), false}
+	pkgHandler = httpHandler{"/pkg/", filepath.Join(srcroot, "src/pkg"), true}
 }
 
 func registerPublicHandlers(mux *http.ServeMux) {
@@ -531,7 +536,7 @@
 }
 
 func readTemplate(name string) *template.Template {
-	path := filepath.Join(*goroot, "lib", "godoc", name)
+	path := filepath.Join(*goroot, "lib/"+name)
 	if *templateDir != "" {
 		defaultpath := path
 		path = filepath.Join(*templateDir, name)
@@ -702,13 +707,18 @@
 }
 
 func serveFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	// openSUSE: serv docs from root of go-doc package install location
+	if strings.HasPrefix(r.URL.Path, "/doc/") {
+		http.Redirect(w, r, "/"+ r.URL.Path[len("/doc"):], http.StatusMovedPermanently)
+		return
+	}
 	relpath := r.URL.Path[1:] // serveFile URL paths start with '/'
-	abspath := absolutePath(relpath, *goroot)
+	abspath := absolutePath(relpath, docroot)
 
 	// pick off special cases and hand the rest to the standard file server
 	switch r.URL.Path {
 	case "/":
-		serveHTMLDoc(w, r, filepath.Join(*goroot, "doc", "root.html"), "doc/root.html")
+		serveHTMLDoc(w, r, filepath.Join(docroot, "doc", "root.html"), "root.html")
 		return
 
 	case "/doc/root.html":