diff --git a/desktop/murrine-themes/murrine-themes.SlackBuild b/desktop/murrine-themes/murrine-themes.SlackBuild
index e4175fd1b3..f28ee90084 100644
--- a/desktop/murrine-themes/murrine-themes.SlackBuild
+++ b/desktop/murrine-themes/murrine-themes.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for murrine-themes
 
-# Copyright 2011  Petar Petrov, petar.petrov@student.oulu.fi
+# Copyright 2011-2015  Petar Petrov, petar.petrov@student.oulu.fi
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 # Many thanks to Debian for bundling all these themes together!
 
 PRGNAM=murrine-themes
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.98.6}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.98.8}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ 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.xz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION/usr/share/themes
 tar xvf $CWD/${ORIGINAL}Xfwm.tar.bz2
 chown -R root:root .
diff --git a/desktop/murrine-themes/murrine-themes.info b/desktop/murrine-themes/murrine-themes.info
index 04943c7211..c0411891ad 100644
--- a/desktop/murrine-themes/murrine-themes.info
+++ b/desktop/murrine-themes/murrine-themes.info
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 PRGNAM="murrine-themes"
-VERSION="0.98.6"
+VERSION="0.98.8"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.cimitan.com/murrine/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://www.student.oulu.fi/~ppetrov/source/murrine-themes_0.98.6.tar.gz \
+DOWNLOAD="http://www.student.oulu.fi/~ppetrov/source/murrine-themes_0.98.8.tar.xz \
 	http://www.student.oulu.fi/~ppetrov/source/MurrineXfwm.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="79ff78511bdbe4f390007edab54dfb45 \
+MD5SUM="190adf19e7b69c3a1132551020f8bdf2 \
 	faf23fcc477239c7e6f1cd627b27fd72"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""