diff --git a/desktop-file-utils/.footprint b/desktop-file-utils/.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/desktop-file-install
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/desktop-file-validate
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/update-desktop-database
diff --git a/desktop-file-utils/.md5sum b/desktop-file-utils/.md5sum
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+8b930e9ad08ac6b8205dd00a1d694b0c  desktop-file-utils-0.10.tar.gz
diff --git a/desktop-file-utils/Pkgfile b/desktop-file-utils/Pkgfile
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+# Description: Command-line utilities for working with desktop entries
+# URL: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/
+# Maintainer: Matt Housh, jaeger at morpheus dot net
+# Depends on: glib, popt, pkg-config
+
+name=desktop-file-utils
+version=0.10
+release=1
+source=(http://freedesktop.org/software/$name/releases/$name-$version.tar.gz)
+
+build() {
+	cd $name-$version
+	./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-nls 
+	make
+	make DESTDIR=$PKG install
+}