diff --git a/system/ddcutil/ddcutil.SlackBuild b/system/ddcutil/ddcutil.SlackBuild
index 9a88356804..f19dc83435 100644
--- a/system/ddcutil/ddcutil.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/ddcutil/ddcutil.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=ddcutil
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.8.6}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.7}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -69,10 +69,9 @@ 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 {} \;
 
-./autogen.sh
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-./configure \
+./autogen.sh \
   --prefix=/usr \
   --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
   --sysconfdir=/etc \
diff --git a/system/ddcutil/ddcutil.info b/system/ddcutil/ddcutil.info
index acd1af4c28..21906ddac4 100644
--- a/system/ddcutil/ddcutil.info
+++ b/system/ddcutil/ddcutil.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="ddcutil"
-VERSION="0.8.6"
+VERSION="0.9.7"
 HOMEPAGE="http://ddcutil.com/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/archive/v0.8.6/ddcutil-0.8.6.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="4cb18bb13505e1713736c35f5e8f6237"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/archive/v0.9.7/ddcutil-0.9.7.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="427c956956ac8c9afdc8e18c76a8e3b0"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""