diff --git a/development/ninja-ide/ninja-ide.SlackBuild b/development/ninja-ide/ninja-ide.SlackBuild
index d3328cdf8f..829d370563 100644
--- a/development/ninja-ide/ninja-ide.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/ninja-ide/ninja-ide.SlackBuild
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # Slackware build script for ninja-ide
 
 # Copyright 2012  Binh Nguyen <binhvng@gmail.com>
+# Copyright 2014  Ryan P.C. McQuen, WA, ryan.q@linux.com
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=ninja-ide
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.1.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.3}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -46,12 +47,12 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM
-unzip $CWD/$PRGNAM-v$VERSION.zip
-cd $PRGNAM
+tar xvf $CWD/v$VERSION.tar.gz
+cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
  \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
-  -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
+ -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
diff --git a/development/ninja-ide/ninja-ide.info b/development/ninja-ide/ninja-ide.info
index 1de33a61a9..f2862b2645 100644
--- a/development/ninja-ide/ninja-ide.info
+++ b/development/ninja-ide/ninja-ide.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="ninja-ide"
-VERSION="2.1.1"
+VERSION="2.3"
 HOMEPAGE="http://ninja-ide.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/ninja-ide/ninja-ide/ninja-ide-v2.1.1.zip"
-MD5SUM="d12de39bb678a1db510bbb830bfc8f33"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/ninja-ide/ninja-ide/archive/v2.3.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="196d0374eaef5ea35cd8612869d90016"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="pysetuptools pyinotify"
-MAINTAINER="Binh Nguyen"
-EMAIL="binhvng@gmail.com"
+MAINTAINER="Ryan P.C. McQuen"
+EMAIL="ryan.q@linux.com"