diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index d2dc361ea68..a985b6fc03a 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1046,3 +1046,4 @@ libgnomekbd.so.8 libgnomekbd-3.6.0_1
 libgnomekbdui.so.8 libgnomekbd-3.6.0_1
 libibus-1.0.so.5 ibus-1.4.99.20120917_1
 libgnome-bluetooth.so.11 gnome-bluetooth-3.6.0_1
+libxapian.so.22 libxapian-1.2.12_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxapian b/srcpkgs/libxapian
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..9b65550a8d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libxapian
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+xapian-core
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xapian-core-devel b/srcpkgs/xapian-core-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..9b65550a8d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xapian-core-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+xapian-core
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xapian-core/libxapian.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/xapian-core/libxapian.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d1dc2670341
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xapian-core/libxapian.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+libz.so.1
+libuuid.so.1
+libstdc++.so.6
+libm.so.6
+libc.so.6
+libgcc_s.so.1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xapian-core/libxapian.template b/srcpkgs/xapian-core/libxapian.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..69b30d24645
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xapian-core/libxapian.template
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Template file for 'libxapian'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} -- runtime library"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains the runtime libraries."
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove "usr/lib/*.so*" usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xapian-core/template b/srcpkgs/xapian-core/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ee83732746c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xapian-core/template
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Template file for 'xapian-core'
+pkgname=xapian-core
+version=1.2.12
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--disable-static"
+subpackages="${pkgname}-devel libxapian"
+short_desc="Open source search engine"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+homepage="http://www.xapian.org/"
+license="GPL-2"
+distfiles="http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=d5d34dd11df4cc44380e68b3737d1413fb4706115c4bdd63ef5e30afbc1c86df
+long_desc="
+ Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the GPL. It's
+ written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl,
+ C#, Ruby and Lua (so far!)."
+
+# xapian-config needs the .la
+keep_libtool_archives=yes
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xapian-core/xapian-core-devel.template b/srcpkgs/xapian-core/xapian-core-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f3c17812381
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xapian-core/xapian-core-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Template file for 'xapian-core-devel'.
+#
+noarch=yes
+depends="libxapian>=${version}"
+short_desc="${short_desc} -- development files"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/share/doc usr/share
+	vmove usr/share/aclocal usr/share
+	vmove usr/lib/cmake usr/lib
+	vmove "usr/lib/*.la" usr/lib
+	vmove usr/bin/xapian-config usr/bin
+	vmove usr/share/man/man1/xapian-config.1 usr/share/man/man1
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xapian-core/xapian-core.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/xapian-core/xapian-core.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..10ca9032d07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xapian-core/xapian-core.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+libxapian.so.22
+libstdc++.so.6
+libgcc_s.so.1
+libc.so.6
+libm.so.6