diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgtop-devel b/srcpkgs/libgtop-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..9934f676c73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgtop-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../libgtop
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgtop/depends b/srcpkgs/libgtop/depends
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a292caca773
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgtop/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+abi_depends=">=2.28.1"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgtop/libgtop-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libgtop/libgtop-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..03f437b7c3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgtop/libgtop-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Template file for 'libgtop-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${sourcepkg} (development files)"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+do_install()
+{
+	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/{lib,share}
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/include ${DESTDIR}/usr
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/lib*.{a,so} ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/pkgconfig ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/share/{gtk-doc,info} ${DESTDIR}/usr/share
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgtop/template b/srcpkgs/libgtop/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bb5e070e00c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgtop/template
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Template build file for 'libgtop'.
+pkgname=libgtop
+version=2.28.1
+distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/$pkgname/2.28/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
+build_style=gnu_configure
+configure_args="--localstatedir=/var -with-libgtop-smp"
+short_desc="Library to retrieve system information, used in GNOME"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+checksum=0a7e0e7d736a608a5ed25f8e475a87bf38e61dbef66822e25e8ef50705cf70f6
+long_desc="
+ libgtop is a library that fetches system information about the running
+ system such as cpu and memory usage, active processes etc. It
+ provides a setgid server that fetches the information and a
+ client-side library that talks to this server."
+
+subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
+
+Add_dependency run glibc
+Add_dependency run glib
+Add_dependency run libXau
+Add_dependency build pkg-config
+Add_dependency build intltool
+Add_dependency build glib-devel
+Add_dependency build libXau-devel
diff --git a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
index 8c9d32a56b1..bc5be4ea100 100644
--- a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
+++ b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
@@ -520,3 +520,4 @@ libgnomekbd.so			libgnomekbd		libgnomekbd-devel
 libgnomekbdui.so		libgnomekbd		libgnomekbd-devel
 libcanberra.so			libcanberra		libcanberra-devel
 libcanberra-gtk.so		libcanberra		libcanberra-devel
+libgtop-2.0.so			libgtop			libgtop-devel