--- a/libdeja/duplicity/DuplicityInstance.vala
+++ b/libdeja/duplicity/DuplicityInstance.vala
@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ internal class DuplicityInstance : Object
     // We already are pretty sure we don't have other duplicities in our
     // archive directories, because we use our own and we ensure we only have
     // one deja-dup running at a time via DBus.
     var lockfile_glob = Shell.quote(cache_dir) + "/*/lockfile.lock";
-    if (Posix.system("/bin/rm -f " + lockfile_glob) != 0)
+    if (Posix.system("@coreutils@/bin/rm -f " + lockfile_glob) != 0)
       warning("Could not delete '%s'", lockfile_glob);
 
     Process.spawn_async_with_pipes(null, real_argv, real_envp,
                         SpawnFlags.SEARCH_PATH |