diff --git a/libraries/libebml/libebml.SlackBuild b/libraries/libebml/libebml.SlackBuild
index e56f4b1de0..fa44118255 100644
--- a/libraries/libebml/libebml.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/libebml/libebml.SlackBuild
@@ -36,10 +36,13 @@ OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 fi
 
 set -e 
@@ -48,7 +51,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xjvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.bz2
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find . \
@@ -59,17 +62,20 @@ find . \
 
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-make prefix=/usr sharedlib -C make/linux 
-make prefix=$PKG/usr install -C make/linux
+make prefix=/usr libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} sharedlib -C make/linux 
+make prefix=$PKG/usr libdir=$PKG/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} install -C make/linux
 
 ( cd $PKG
-  find . | xargs file | grep "executable" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
-  find . | xargs file | grep "shared object" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null
+  find . | xargs file | grep "executable" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \
+    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
+  find . | xargs file | grep "shared object" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | \
+    xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null
 )
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a ChangeLog LICENSE.LGPL $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
+
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 
diff --git a/libraries/libebml/libebml.info b/libraries/libebml/libebml.info
index d91d80f67a..295a1385c5 100644
--- a/libraries/libebml/libebml.info
+++ b/libraries/libebml/libebml.info
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ DOWNLOAD="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/libebml-0.7.8.tar.bz2"
 MD5SUM="6278109f52e4f9d2c8a8dfc0d668b587"
 MAINTAINER="Andrew Strong"
 EMAIL="andrew.david.45@gmail.com"
-APPROVED="David Somero"
+APPROVED="dsomero,rworkman"
diff --git a/libraries/libebml/slack-desc b/libraries/libebml/slack-desc
index 5742f0b8ab..7c73da4430 100644
--- a/libraries/libebml/slack-desc
+++ b/libraries/libebml/slack-desc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # customary to leave one space after the ':'.
 
        |-----handy-ruler-------------------------------------------------------|
-libebml: libebml 
+libebml: libebml (a C++ library for parsing EBML files)
 libebml:
 libebml: libebml is a C++ libary to parse EBML files. EBML (Extensible Binary 
 libebml: Meta-Language library) is a simple XML like binary language for