diff --git a/misc/owfs/owfs.SlackBuild b/misc/owfs/owfs.SlackBuild
index 7ab877ea64..a11a046a67 100644
--- a/misc/owfs/owfs.SlackBuild
+++ b/misc/owfs/owfs.SlackBuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Written by MrJackson mrjackson@gmail.com
 
 PRGNAM=owfs
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.8p10}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.8p18}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | gr
 find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
 for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
 
-rm -r $PKG/usr/share/man
-
 # Remove perllocal.pod and other special files; remove empty directories
 find $PKG -name perllocal.pod -o -name ".packlist" -o -name "*.bs" | xargs rm -f || true
 find $PKG -depth -type d -empty -delete || true
diff --git a/misc/owfs/owfs.info b/misc/owfs/owfs.info
index 95065a5296..901a69d214 100644
--- a/misc/owfs/owfs.info
+++ b/misc/owfs/owfs.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="owfs"
-VERSION="2.8p10"
+VERSION="2.8p18"
 HOMEPAGE="http://owfs.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/owfs/owfs-2.8p10.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="40aaed8a7861528314b344aea708d7ce"
+DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/owfs/owfs-2.8p18.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="c6785b86f5abdbc989236d92a1c664ed"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""