diff --git a/vte/.footprint b/vte/.footprint
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index 000000000..b66ddf53d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vte/.footprint
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/vte
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/vte/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/vte/pty.h
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/vte/reaper.h
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/vte/vte.h
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/vte/vteaccess.h
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/vte/vtetypebuiltins.h
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/include/vte/vteversion.h
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libvte.la
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libvte.so -> libvte.so.9.3.1
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libvte.so.9 -> libvte.so.9.3.1
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libvte.so.9.3.1
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/pkgconfig/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/pkgconfig/vte.pc
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/decset
+-rwxr-sr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/gnome-pty-helper
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/interpret
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/iso8859mode
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/nativeecho
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/osc
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/slowcat
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/utf8echo
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/utf8mode
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/vterdb
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/vte/window
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/vte/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/vte/termcap/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm
diff --git a/vte/.md5sum b/vte/.md5sum
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index 000000000..8466494bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vte/.md5sum
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+515cd053e2c25423793ea4e057e3b018  vte-0.17.2.tar.bz2
diff --git a/vte/Pkgfile b/vte/Pkgfile
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index 000000000..a0ec51285
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vte/Pkgfile
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Description: Virtual Terminal Emulator
+# URL: http://developer.gnome.org/arch/gnome/widgets/vte.html
+# Maintainer: Jose V Beneyto, sepen at users dot sourceforge dot net
+# Packager: Juergen Daubert, juergen dot daubert at t-online dot de
+# Depends on: gtk p5-xml-parser
+
+name=vte
+version=0.17.2
+release=1
+source=(ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/$name/${version%.*}/$name-$version.tar.bz2)
+
+build() {
+  cd $name-$version
+  rm po/*.po
+  sed -e 's/USE_NLS=yes/USE_NLS=no/' \
+      -e 's/ENABLE_NLS 1/ENABLE_NLS 0/' -i configure
+  ./configure --prefix=/usr \
+              --libexecdir=/usr/lib/$name \
+              --disable-static \
+              --disable-debugging \
+              --disable-python \
+              --disable-gtk-doc \
+              --with-xft2 \
+              --with-pangox
+  make
+  make DESTDIR=$PKG install
+  rm -r $PKG/usr/share/gtk-doc
+}