diff --git a/alsa-utils/.md5sum b/alsa-utils/.md5sum
index 0f6f0a236..0fa3c8d79 100644
--- a/alsa-utils/.md5sum
+++ b/alsa-utils/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-14ccd0c900bf663afb36eac6f92d41d6  alsa-utils-1.0.17.tar.bz2
+0a6b26d27cc2adfd591d91d8c155fdb7  alsa-utils-1.0.18.tar.bz2
 7ca87ae2d727887898e1feb47a48d3f9  rc.alsa
diff --git a/alsa-utils/Pkgfile b/alsa-utils/Pkgfile
index 2205fb39a..234ef0c0a 100644
--- a/alsa-utils/Pkgfile
+++ b/alsa-utils/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on: gettext, alsa-lib, dialog
 
 name=alsa-utils
-version=1.0.17
+version=1.0.18
 release=1
 source=(ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/$name-$version.tar.bz2 \
 	rc.alsa)
@@ -12,8 +12,17 @@ source=(ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/$name-$version.tar.bz2 \
 build() {
 	cd $name-$version
 	./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-nls --mandir=/usr/man
+
+	# alsactl_init.7 is generated using xmlto, which we don't have
+	touch alsactl/alsactl_init.7
+
 	make
 	make DESTDIR=$PKG install
 	rm -rf $PKG/usr/share $PKG/usr/man/fr
+
+	# see above
+	rm -f $PKG/usr/man/man7/alsactl_init.7
+	rmdir $PKG/usr/man/man7
+
 	install -D -m 0755 $SRC/rc.alsa $PKG/etc/rc.d/alsa
 }