diff --git a/libraries/glibmm/README b/libraries/glibmm/README
index 8ded9ef77b..d0df1fa78f 100644
--- a/libraries/glibmm/README
+++ b/libraries/glibmm/README
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ APIs such as a std::string-like UTF8 string class, string utility
 methods, such as a text encoding converter API, file access,
 and threads.
 
-This requires libsigc++ (also available from SlackBuilds.org)
+This requires libsigc++.
diff --git a/libraries/glibmm/glibmm.SlackBuild b/libraries/glibmm/glibmm.SlackBuild
index 11d14948eb..be980b425a 100644
--- a/libraries/glibmm/glibmm.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/glibmm/glibmm.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PKGNAME=glibmm
-VERSION=2.16.4
+VERSION=2.18.2
 ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
@@ -35,8 +35,13 @@ OUTPUT=${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
 
 set -e
@@ -54,6 +59,7 @@ CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
   ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
+  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
   --sysconfdir=/etc \
   --localstatedir=/var \
   --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
@@ -76,4 +82,4 @@ mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 
 cd $PKG
-/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PKGNAME-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.tgz
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PKGNAME-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/libraries/glibmm/glibmm.info b/libraries/glibmm/glibmm.info
index c51487510f..d8c23efe5d 100644
--- a/libraries/glibmm/glibmm.info
+++ b/libraries/glibmm/glibmm.info
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="glibmm"
-VERSION="2.16.4"
+VERSION="2.18.2"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.gtkmm.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glibmm/2.16/glibmm-2.16.4.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="fe2e91fa93759ffc812e80ca50ace233"
+DOWNLOAD="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glibmm/2.18/glibmm-2.18.2.tar.bz2"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM="acb1fc7d1afebb7fe64f569eb6ba2aed"
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="paul wisehart"
 EMAIL="wise@lupulin.net"
 APPROVED="rworkman"