diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 993b3d4c18..a7126bc0a1 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3972,6 +3972,7 @@ libkpathsea.so.6 texlive-20200406_1
 libtexluajit.so.2 texlive-LuaTeX-20200406_1
 libtexlua53.so.5 texlive-LuaTeX-20200406_1
 libptexenc.so.1 texlive-20200406_1
+libsynctex.so.2 libsynctex-20200406_3
 libdolphinvcs.so.5 dolphin-20.04.3_1
 libcglm.so.0 cglm-0.7.6_1
 libfcft.so.3 fcft-2.2.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libsynctex b/srcpkgs/libsynctex
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..c6cca627ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libsynctex
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+texlive
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/texlive/template b/srcpkgs/texlive/template
index 0f7eaf2451..b472c31d75 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/texlive/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/texlive/template
@@ -338,6 +338,13 @@ texlive-Xdvi_package() {
 	}
 }
 
+libsynctex_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - libsynctex"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/libsynctex.so.*"
+	}
+}
+
 texlive-devel_package() {
 	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
 	short_desc+=" - development files"