diff --git a/newsbeuter/.footprint b/newsbeuter/.footprint
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+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/newsbeuter
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/podbeuter
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man1/
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man1/newsbeuter.1.gz
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man1/podbeuter.1.gz
diff --git a/newsbeuter/.md5sum b/newsbeuter/.md5sum
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+b007488876c8dc63114bc626d33799b5  newsbeuter-2.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/newsbeuter/Pkgfile b/newsbeuter/Pkgfile
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+# Description: RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals
+# URL:         http://www.newsbeuter.org/
+# Maintainer:  Juergen Daubert, jue at crux dot nu
+# Depends on:  curl libxml2 sqlite3 stfl
+
+name=newsbeuter
+version=2.3
+release=1
+source=(http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/$name-$version.tar.gz)
+
+build () {
+    cd $name-$version
+    sed -i 's|ncursesw/||' src/{controller,view}.cpp
+    export prefix=/usr mandir=/usr/man
+    ./config.sh
+    make
+    make DESTDIR=$PKG install
+    rm -r $PKG/usr/share
+}