diff --git a/srcpkgs/flowblade/patches/usr-merge.patch b/srcpkgs/flowblade/patches/usr-merge.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 595d5574fa9..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/flowblade/patches/usr-merge.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git flowblade-trunk/flowblade flowblade-trunk/flowblade
-index faeba629..9acad76e 100755
---- flowblade-trunk/flowblade
-+++ flowblade-trunk/flowblade
-@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ print ("Launch script dir:", launch_dir)
- 
- # Update sys.path to include modules.
- # When running on distro.
--if launch_dir == "/usr/bin":
-+if os.path.realpath(launch_dir) == "/usr/bin":
-     print ("Running from installation...")
-     modules_path = "/usr/share/flowblade/Flowblade"
-     if not os.path.isdir(modules_path):
diff --git a/srcpkgs/flowblade/template b/srcpkgs/flowblade/template
index 1bcf9e8ced2..74a7820aee8 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/flowblade/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/flowblade/template
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Template file for 'flowblade'
 pkgname=flowblade
-version=2.6.3
+version=2.8
 revision=1
 build_wrksrc=flowblade-trunk
 build_style=python3-module
-make_install_args="--install-lib=${DESTDIR}/usr/share/pyshared"
+make_install_args="--install-lib=${DESTDIR}/usr/share/flowblade"
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
 # https://github.com/jliljebl/flowblade/blob/master/flowblade-trunk/docs/DEPENDENCIES.md
 depends="frei0r-plugins gmic mlt-python3 python3-Pillow python3-dbus gtk+3
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ maintainer="shizonic <realtiaz@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/jliljebl/flowblade/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=e36d9f3c341e87bc5e6810f7d16304f3c4cb4161557e5da455f74eda59f52e1b
+checksum=0a06d31ed148087b49dadcce775b395cd89586e05d306834d02f219c450b8125