[EMBOSS] jaspextract does not work

[Hermann Norpois]

To whom it may conern.

I have problems to install the jaspar database. My emboss database
directory is /usr/share/EMBOSS/data. The jaspar files are dummies. This is
okay.
I downloaded Archive.zip from the jaspar site, extracted it to ~/jaspar and
got 3 directories:

drwxr-xr-x  5 hnorpois hnorpois 4096 2012-05-14 21:04 all_data
drwxr-xr-x 10 hnorpois hnorpois 4096 2012-05-14 21:04 jaspar_collections
drwxr-xr-x  4 hnorpois hnorpois 4096 2012-05-14 21:04 jaspar_CORE

Now i started from the command line
jaspextract
and get

Extract data from JASPAR
JASPAR database directory [.]:

I do not understand what to type after JASPAR database directory [.]:

I tried all variations I can imagine (e.g.: ~/jaspar, ~/jaspar/all_data,
~/jaspar/all_data/FlatFileDir) but I always get the answer:

Error: Unable to open directory '~/jaspar/'

Could anybody give me an instruction?
Thank you and sincerely
Hermann Norpois