diff --git a/newsbeuter/.footprint b/newsbeuter/.footprint
index 33fd0b7e7..57300a836 100644
--- a/newsbeuter/.footprint
+++ b/newsbeuter/.footprint
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ 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
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/man/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/man/man1/
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/man/man1/newsbeuter.1.gz
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/man/man1/podbeuter.1.gz
diff --git a/newsbeuter/.md5sum b/newsbeuter/.md5sum
index 0045d7f18..f0bd6eb00 100644
--- a/newsbeuter/.md5sum
+++ b/newsbeuter/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 9cf332dc7e591023147bda7add430835  newsbeuter-2.9.tar.gz
+ce17d0a91470bd334be6e89c5673aa1c  newsbeuter-ncursesw.patch
diff --git a/newsbeuter/Pkgfile b/newsbeuter/Pkgfile
index deb3e19e7..e15c0e14d 100644
--- a/newsbeuter/Pkgfile
+++ b/newsbeuter/Pkgfile
@@ -5,14 +5,16 @@
 
 name=newsbeuter
 version=2.9
-release=1
-source=(http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/$name-$version.tar.gz)
+release=2
+source=(http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/$name-$version.tar.gz \
+        $name-ncursesw.patch)
 
 build () {
     cd $name-$version
-    export prefix=/usr mandir=/usr/man
+    export prefix=/usr
+    patch -p1 -i $SRC/$name-ncursesw.patch
     ./config.sh
     make
     make DESTDIR=$PKG install
-    rm -r $PKG/usr/share
+    rm -r $PKG/usr/share/{doc,locale}
 }
diff --git a/newsbeuter/newsbeuter-ncursesw.patch b/newsbeuter/newsbeuter-ncursesw.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..24f932a9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsbeuter/newsbeuter-ncursesw.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+commit 02f08698f74bb5bba6f036292b1d26fd22255c7f
+Author: Jan Pobrislo <ccx@webprojekty.cz>
+Date:   Thu Aug 27 12:32:18 2015 +0200
+
+    Use pkg-config to search for ncursesw.
+
+diff --git a/config.sh b/config.sh
+index a9f0081..4f8afe4 100755
+--- a/config.sh
++++ b/config.sh
+@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ check_pkg "stfl" || fail "stfl"
+ if [ `uname -s` = "Darwin" ]; then
+ 	check_custom "ncurses5.4" "ncurses5.4-config" || fail "ncurses5.4"
+ elif [ `uname -s` != "OpenBSD" ]; then
++	check_pkg "ncursesw" || \
+ 	check_custom "ncursesw5" "ncursesw5-config" ||  fail "ncursesw"
+ fi
+ check_ssl_implementation