diff --git a/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/patches/void-patch.patch b/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/patches/void-patch.patch
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index 0000000000..948c0b1af1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/patches/void-patch.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+--- Makefile.old	2014-01-18 17:10:41.000000000 -0600
++++ Makefile	2014-11-16 11:50:42.732669294 -0600
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ # important directories
+-prefix?=/usr/local
++prefix?=/usr
+ mandir?=$(prefix)/share/man
+ datadir?=$(prefix)/share
+ localedir?=$(datadir)/locale
diff --git a/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/template b/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/template
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+++ b/srcpkgs/newsbeuter/template
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Template file for 'newsbeuter'
+pkgname=newsbeuter
+version=r2.8
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-makefile
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl"
+makedepends="ncurses-devel stfl-devel json-c-devel libxml2-devel libcurl-devel sqlite-devel libressl-devel"
+short_desc="Newsbeuter is the Mutt of RSS feed readers"
+maintainer="Logen K <logen@sudotask.com>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="http://www.newsbeuter.org"
+distfiles="https://github.com/akrennmair/${pkgname}/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=71b0b27bddcc5f5c23c2ed94a9493028b57ca792a29592289b7f5acb1ac8c9e5
+
+pre_configure() {
+	./config.sh
+}