diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 8747d085f9..ea9ead24c5 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -980,3 +980,4 @@ libcups.so.2			libcups			cups-devel
 libcupsimage.so.2		libcups			cups-devel
 libijs-0.35.so			libijs			ghostscript-devel
 libgs.so.9			libgs			ghostscript-devel
+libssh2.so.1			libssh2			libssh2-devel
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libssh2-devel b/srcpkgs/libssh2-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..fddca93bea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libssh2-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libssh2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libssh2/depends b/srcpkgs/libssh2/depends
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eaf929f4dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libssh2/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+abi_depends=">=1.4.1"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libssh2/libssh2-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libssh2/libssh2-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b0ef5ef80e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libssh2/libssh2-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Template file for 'libssh2-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} -- development files"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+Add_dependency run libssh2 ">=$version"
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove "usr/lib/*.a" usr/lib
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+	vmove usr/share usr
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libssh2/libssh2.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/libssh2/libssh2.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a976a535c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libssh2/libssh2.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+libssl.so.1
+libcrypto.so.1
+libz.so.1
+libc.so.6
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libssh2/template b/srcpkgs/libssh2/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b5c190447
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libssh2/template
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Template file for 'libssh2'
+pkgname=libssh2
+version=1.4.1
+homepage="http://www.libssh2.org/"
+distfiles="http://www.libssh2.org/download/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="library implementing the SSH2 protocol"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="BSD"
+checksum=196579273b47813fe833d35dd234767567ed8938d9b98f1badf7af9002c9322d
+long_desc="
+ libssh2 is a client-side C library implementing the SSH2 protocol. It supports
+ regular terminal, SCP and SFTP sessions; port forwarding; password, key-based
+ and keyboard-interactive authentication."
+
+subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
+Add_dependency build openssl-devel