diff --git a/libraries/BeautifulSoup/BeautifulSoup.SlackBuild b/libraries/BeautifulSoup/BeautifulSoup.SlackBuild
index 8966240e85..9fe03f4ca1 100644
--- a/libraries/BeautifulSoup/BeautifulSoup.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/BeautifulSoup/BeautifulSoup.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=BeautifulSoup
-VERSION=3.2.1
+VERSION=${VERSION:-3.2.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}