diff --git a/ghostscript/.md5sum b/ghostscript/.md5sum
index 99d8a0575..af0c393dc 100644
--- a/ghostscript/.md5sum
+++ b/ghostscript/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-526366f8cb4fda0d3d293597cc5b984b  ghostscript-8.70.tar.bz2
+fec96a1fb44b73a01ba1adda55744784  ghostscript-8.70.tar.xz
 6865682b095f8c4500c54b285ff05ef6  ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
diff --git a/ghostscript/Pkgfile b/ghostscript/Pkgfile
index 0711e4bfd..693f5953e 100644
--- a/ghostscript/Pkgfile
+++ b/ghostscript/Pkgfile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 name=ghostscript
 version=8.70
 release=1
-source=(http://ghostscript.com/releases/$name-$version.tar.bz2 \
+source=(http://ghostscript.com/releases/$name-$version.tar.xz \
         http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gs-fonts/$name-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz)
 
 build () {