diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 017e42923e5..7077be34ea3 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1180,3 +1180,4 @@ librlog.so.5 librlog-1.4_1
 libtinyxml.so.0 tinyxml-2.6.2_1
 libbluray.so.1 libbluray-0.2.3_1
 libnfs.so.1 libnfs-1.3.0_1
+libzip.so.2 libzip-0.10.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libzip-devel b/srcpkgs/libzip-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..a3b0a06219c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libzip-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libzip
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libzip/libzip-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libzip/libzip-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ba547e66342
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libzip/libzip-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+short_desc="${short_desc} - development files"
+depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}"
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/share/man/man3 usr/share/man
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+	vmove "usr/lib/*.a" usr/lib
+	vmove usr/lib/libzip usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libzip/template b/srcpkgs/libzip/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..366fd44e9b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libzip/template
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Template file for 'libzip'
+pkgname=libzip
+version=0.10.1
+revision=1
+subpackages="libzip-devel"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives"
+maintainer="pancake <pancake@nopcode.org>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://www.nih.at/libzip/"
+distfiles="${homepage}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=a7cdb5112004db5147f330f16c0f0e732922c342b9f0cda422c45e254590b617