diff --git a/sqlite3/.md5sum b/sqlite3/.md5sum
index 51aab950b..6d963c75c 100644
--- a/sqlite3/.md5sum
+++ b/sqlite3/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-f17da840eed792e896c3408d0ce97718  sqlite-3.5.4.tar.gz
-b0887758b555ff4ae51754491c5d2786  sqlite3-without_tcl.patch
+903c9e935c538af392364a9172a3d98d  sqlite-3.5.6.tar.gz
diff --git a/sqlite3/Pkgfile b/sqlite3/Pkgfile
index 5194481d9..3edfb524b 100644
--- a/sqlite3/Pkgfile
+++ b/sqlite3/Pkgfile
@@ -4,15 +4,13 @@
 # Depends on:  ncurses, readline
 
 name=sqlite3
-version=3.5.4
-release=2
+version=3.5.6
+release=1
 
-source=(http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-$version.tar.gz \
-        $name-without_tcl.patch)
+source=(http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-$version.tar.gz)
 
 build () {
     cd sqlite-$version
-    patch -p1 -i $SRC/$name-without_tcl.patch
     ./configure --prefix=/usr \
                 --enable-threadsafe \
                 --disable-tcl
diff --git a/sqlite3/sqlite3-without_tcl.patch b/sqlite3/sqlite3-without_tcl.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a307b02e..000000000
--- a/sqlite3/sqlite3-without_tcl.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-diff -Nru sqlite-3.5.4.orig/Makefile.in sqlite-3.5.4/Makefile.in
---- sqlite-3.5.4.orig/Makefile.in	2007-12-17 10:23:23.000000000 +0100
-+++ sqlite-3.5.4/Makefile.in	2007-12-17 10:25:05.000000000 +0100
-@@ -317,18 +317,11 @@
-                 -rpath $(libdir)/sqlite \
- 		-version-info "8:6:8"
- 
--testcli$(TEXE):	$(TOP)/src/shell.c libsqlite3.la sqlite3.h
-+sqlite3$(TEXE):	$(TOP)/src/shell.c libsqlite3.la sqlite3.h
- 	$(LTLINK) $(READLINE_FLAGS) $(LIBPTHREAD) \
- 		-o $@ $(TOP)/src/shell.c libsqlite3.la \
- 		$(LIBREADLINE) $(TLIBS)
- 
--sqlite3$(EXE):	$(TOP)/src/shell.c sqlite3.c sqlite3.h
--	$(LTLINK) $(READLINE_FLAGS) -o $@                          \
--		-DSQLITE_MAX_SQL_LENGTH=1000000000                  \
--		-USQLITE_THREADSAFE -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=0           \
--		$(TOP)/src/shell.c sqlite3.c                        \
--		$(LIBREADLINE) $(TLIBS) $(THREADLIB)
--
- # This target creates a directory named "tsrc" and fills it with
- # copies of all of the C source code and header files needed to
- # build on the target system.  Some of the C source code and header