diff --git a/system/patool/patool.SlackBuild b/system/patool/patool.SlackBuild
index 6c589373d8..957aa54fd8 100644
--- a/system/patool/patool.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/patool/patool.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=patool
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.4}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.5}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz || tar xvf $CWD/v$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
@@ -69,20 +69,19 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
+# patch to install man page in correct place
+sed -i 's/share\/man/\/usr\/man/' setup.py
+
 python setup.py install --root=$PKG
 
 find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
 
-mv $PKG/usr/share/man $PKG/usr
-rm -rf $PKG/usr/share
 find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
 for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-
-cp -a README.md COPYING doc/*.txt $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-
+cp -a COPYING doc/*.txt $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
diff --git a/system/patool/patool.info b/system/patool/patool.info
index 054cb9ec3f..a367219e8d 100644
--- a/system/patool/patool.info
+++ b/system/patool/patool.info
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="patool"
-VERSION="1.4"
+VERSION="1.5"
 HOMEPAGE="http://wummel.github.io/patool/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://wummel.github.io/patool/dist/patool-1.4.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="716917917d12484e87aa8409670161e8"
+DOWNLOAD="http://wummel.github.io/patool/dist/patool-1.5.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="0c18cf66e4fc618c0e59700a570b99a5"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""
 MAINTAINER="Dimitris Zlatanidis"
 EMAIL="d.zlatanidis@gmail.com"
-