diff --git a/office/lyx/lyx.SlackBuild b/office/lyx/lyx.SlackBuild
index a0ae649ca8..f0c296c334 100644
--- a/office/lyx/lyx.SlackBuild
+++ b/office/lyx/lyx.SlackBuild
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=lyx
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.3.6.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.3.7}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.xz
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-1.tar.xz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
diff --git a/office/lyx/lyx.info b/office/lyx/lyx.info
index 5bc29cbd91..8e325d24ad 100644
--- a/office/lyx/lyx.info
+++ b/office/lyx/lyx.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="lyx"
-VERSION="2.3.6.1"
+VERSION="2.3.7"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.lyx.org"
-DOWNLOAD="https://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/2.3.x/lyx-2.3.6.1.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="e8cb8d271dda076fa0671aa7605ba384"
+DOWNLOAD="https://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/2.3.x/lyx-2.3.7-1.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="d12aa448dc0fcc209f9baa8c13123840"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""