diff --git a/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.SlackBuild b/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.SlackBuild
index 651ef23cbf..0a2dc6314d 100644
--- a/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for hdf5
 
-# Copyright 2007  LukenShiro <lukenshiro@ngi.it>
+# Copyright 2007-2009  LukenShiro <lukenshiro@ngi.it>
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=hdf5
-VERSION=1.8.1
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.8.3}
 ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
@@ -35,19 +35,25 @@ OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 fi
 
+DOCFILES="COPYING MANIFEST README.txt release_docs/RELEASE.txt \
+  release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt"
+
 set -e # Exit on most errors
 
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 chmod -R u+w,go+r-w,a-s .
@@ -57,6 +63,7 @@ CPPFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
   --mandir=/usr/man \
+  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
   --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
   --with-pthread \
   --enable-cxx \
@@ -71,10 +78,8 @@ make
 make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cp -a COPYING MANIFEST README.txt release_docs/RELEASE.txt \
-  release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+install -m 0644 $DOCFILES $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
-find $PKG/usr/doc -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
 
 # Remove unnecessary stuff
 rm -f $PKG/usr/lib/*.settings
diff --git a/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.info b/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.info
index 60d5b52bc3..ac333d8611 100644
--- a/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.info
+++ b/libraries/hdf5/hdf5.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="hdf5"
-VERSION="1.8.1"
+VERSION="1.8.3"
 HOMEPAGE="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/products/hdf5/"
-DOWNLOAD="ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.1.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="db983df70a69f8d0d87314ad1ccc2256"
+DOWNLOAD="ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.3.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="5ce228d860bf9e797ca40ab1a823c380"
 MAINTAINER="LukenShiro"
 EMAIL="lukenshiro@ngi.it"
-APPROVED="rworkman"
+APPROVED="dsomero"
diff --git a/libraries/hdf5/slack-desc b/libraries/hdf5/slack-desc
index fc4cab5fbc..0ce6080d7a 100644
--- a/libraries/hdf5/slack-desc
+++ b/libraries/hdf5/slack-desc
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
 # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct.  It's also
 # customary to leave one space after the ':'.
 
-      |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
+    |-----handy-ruler---------------------------------------------------------|
 hdf5: hdf5 (HDF5 software libraries and utilities)
 hdf5: 
-hdf5: Hierarchical Data Format 5 defines a file format and
-hdf5: and provides a software library for storing arbitrary
-hdf5: multidimensional datasets of various types.
-hdf5: hdf5 provides also c++ and fortran interfaces.
+hdf5: Hierarchical Data Format 5 defines a file format and and provides a
+hdf5: software library for storing arbitrary multidimensional datasets of
+hdf5: various types. hdf5 provides also c++ and fortran interfaces.
 hdf5: It is released under a BSD-ish license.
 hdf5: 
-hdf5: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/products/hdf5/
+hdf5: Homepage: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/products/hdf5/
+hdf5: 
 hdf5: 
 hdf5: