diff --git a/academic/qalculate-gtk/qalculate-gtk.SlackBuild b/academic/qalculate-gtk/qalculate-gtk.SlackBuild
index 65d395e824..37d39456a9 100644
--- a/academic/qalculate-gtk/qalculate-gtk.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/qalculate-gtk/qalculate-gtk.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=qalculate-gtk
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.2.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.8.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -69,9 +69,6 @@ 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 {} \;
 
-# Fix .desktop file.
-sed -i 's|.png||' data/$PRGNAM.desktop.in
-
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 ./configure \
diff --git a/academic/qalculate-gtk/qalculate-gtk.info b/academic/qalculate-gtk/qalculate-gtk.info
index 70185f9c1d..023a61aed5 100644
--- a/academic/qalculate-gtk/qalculate-gtk.info
+++ b/academic/qalculate-gtk/qalculate-gtk.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="qalculate-gtk"
-VERSION="2.2.0"
+VERSION="2.8.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://qalculate.github.io/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/Qalculate/qalculate-gtk/releases/download/v2.2.0/qalculate-gtk-2.2.0.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="a3caeda6633161a5c8f061f1cd050372"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/Qalculate/qalculate-gtk/releases/download/v2.8.1/qalculate-gtk-2.8.1.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="6add33fcce690aec1f96b9b1b5676ec2"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="libqalculate"