diff --git a/academic/wxMaxima/README b/academic/wxMaxima/README
index e0772b728e..8f9437d3b9 100644
--- a/academic/wxMaxima/README
+++ b/academic/wxMaxima/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 wxMaxima is a cross platform GUI for the computer algebra
 system Maxima based on wxWidgets.
 
-Requires: maxima and wxGTK/wxPython.
\ No newline at end of file
+wxMaxima requires maxima and wxGTK or wxPython.
diff --git a/academic/wxMaxima/slack-desc b/academic/wxMaxima/slack-desc
index ee0a302d34..fef966b7a7 100644
--- a/academic/wxMaxima/slack-desc
+++ b/academic/wxMaxima/slack-desc
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@
 # leave one space after the ':'.
 
         |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
-wxMaxima: wxMaxima (cross platform GUI for Maxima)
+wxMaxima: wxMaxima (cross platform GUI for the computer algebra system)
 wxMaxima: 
 wxMaxima: wxMaxima is a cross platform GUI for the computer algebra system
 wxMaxima: Maxima based on wxWidgets.
 wxMaxima: 
 wxMaxima: Homepage: http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
-wxMaxima: 
-wxMaxima: 
-wxMaxima: 
-wxMaxima: 
-wxMaxima: 
+wxMaxima:
+wxMaxima:
+wxMaxima:
+wxMaxima:
+wxMaxima:
diff --git a/academic/wxMaxima/wxMaxima.SlackBuild b/academic/wxMaxima/wxMaxima.SlackBuild
index 0151724bfc..fb13d05716 100644
--- a/academic/wxMaxima/wxMaxima.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/wxMaxima/wxMaxima.SlackBuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Written by Larry Hajali <larryhaja[at]gmail[dot]com>
 
 PRGNAM=wxMaxima
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.8.2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.8.4}
 ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
   --disable-dependency-tracking \
-  --enable-unicode-glyphs \
   --enable-printing \
   --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
 
@@ -54,12 +53,10 @@ make
 make install-strip DESTDIR=$PKG
 
 # Cleanup the desktop menu item.
-echo "" >> wxmaxima.desktop
 echo "StartupNotify=false" >> wxmaxima.desktop
 sed -i \
-  -e "s|^Categories=.*|Categories=Utility;|" \
-  -e "s|^Icon=.*|Icon=${PRGNAM}\.png|" \
-  -e "s|^Terminal=0|Terminal=false|" wxmaxima.desktop
+  -e "/^Categories/s|=.*|=Education;Science;Math;|" \
+  -e "/^Icon/s|=.*|=${PRGNAM}.png|" wxmaxima.desktop
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/{applications,pixmaps}
 install -m 0644 wxmaxima.desktop $PKG/usr/share/applications/$PRGNAM.desktop
@@ -77,4 +74,4 @@ cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 cat $CWD/doinst.sh > $PKG/install/doinst.sh
 
 cd $PKG
-/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.tgz
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/academic/wxMaxima/wxMaxima.info b/academic/wxMaxima/wxMaxima.info
index 38802ba815..4691f69eb0 100644
--- a/academic/wxMaxima/wxMaxima.info
+++ b/academic/wxMaxima/wxMaxima.info
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="wxMaxima"
-VERSION="0.8.2"
+VERSION="0.8.4"
 HOMEPAGE="http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page"
-DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxmaxima/wxMaxima-0.8.2.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="d3d4abde8495aebb295df587587de4a8"
+DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wxmaxima/wxMaxima/0.8.4/wxMaxima-0.8.4.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="b972743501298932bc0b0796c5489332"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="Larry Hajali"
 EMAIL="larryhaja[at]gmail[dot]com"
 APPROVED="dsomero"