diff --git a/python/python-libarchive-c/README b/python/python-libarchive-c/README
index c85dd38b2a..f16e8e8220 100644
--- a/python/python-libarchive-c/README
+++ b/python/python-libarchive-c/README
@@ -1,5 +1 @@
 python-libarchive-c is a Python interface to libarchive.
-
-python3 is an optional dependency.  You need to set PYTHON3=yes,
-for example:
-  PYTHON3=yes ./python-libarchive-c.SlackBuild
diff --git a/python/python-libarchive-c/python-libarchive-c.SlackBuild b/python/python-libarchive-c/python-libarchive-c.SlackBuild
index a0b5481e7e..71058b1771 100644
--- a/python/python-libarchive-c/python-libarchive-c.SlackBuild
+++ b/python/python-libarchive-c/python-libarchive-c.SlackBuild
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for python-libarchive-c
 
+# Copyright 2024 Matt Egger, USA
 # Copyright 2016 David Spencer, Baildon, West Yorkshire, U.K.
 # All rights reserved.
 #
@@ -25,13 +26,11 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=python-libarchive-c
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.8}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-5.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
 
-SRCNAM="$(printf $PRGNAM | cut -d- -f2-)"
-
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
     i?86) ARCH=i586 ;;
@@ -71,9 +70,9 @@ set -e
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
-rm -rf $SRCNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$SRCNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
-cd $SRCNAM-$VERSION
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$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 \
@@ -81,12 +80,7 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
-python setup.py install --root=$PKG
-
-if [ "${PYTHON3:-no}" = "yes" ]; then
-  rm -rf build
-  python3 setup.py install --root=$PKG
-fi
+python3 setup.py install --root=$PKG
 
 find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
diff --git a/python/python-libarchive-c/python-libarchive-c.info b/python/python-libarchive-c/python-libarchive-c.info
index 3b59870aeb..33908d28ae 100644
--- a/python/python-libarchive-c/python-libarchive-c.info
+++ b/python/python-libarchive-c/python-libarchive-c.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="python-libarchive-c"
-VERSION="2.8"
+VERSION="5.1"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Changaco/python-libarchive-c"
-DOWNLOAD="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b9/2c/c975b3410e148dab00d14471784a743268614e21121e50e4e00b13f38370/libarchive-c-2.8.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="9e517783a8e86761d1c04f5550025c27"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/Changaco/python-libarchive-c/archive/5.1/python-libarchive-c-5.1.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="60bca0c12c21755c84fc2f990811b7aa"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""