diff --git a/office/zathura-djvu/README b/office/zathura-djvu/README
index eba82aa01d..338ed64271 100644
--- a/office/zathura-djvu/README
+++ b/office/zathura-djvu/README
@@ -2,6 +2,3 @@ zathura-djvu (zathura support for DjVu format documents)
 
 The zathura-djvu plugin adds DjVu support to zathura by using the
 djvulibre library.
-
-zathura-djvu 0.2.7 is the last possible update for Slackware 14.2. Newer
-versions would require a newer gtk+3.
diff --git a/office/zathura-djvu/zathura-djvu.SlackBuild b/office/zathura-djvu/zathura-djvu.SlackBuild
index a38c4e58ad..e4f7b3dada 100644
--- a/office/zathura-djvu/zathura-djvu.SlackBuild
+++ b/office/zathura-djvu/zathura-djvu.SlackBuild
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=zathura-djvu
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.2.7}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.2.9}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@ if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   esac
 fi
 
-# If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
-# the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
-# could be useful to other scripts.
 if [ ! -z "${PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME}" ]; then
   echo "$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE"
   exit 0
@@ -57,17 +54,25 @@ rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
-find -L . \
- \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
- -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
- \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
- -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+find -L .  -perm /111 -a \! -perm 755 -a -exec chmod 755 {} \+ -o \
+        \! -perm /111 -a \! -perm 644 -a -exec chmod 644 {} \+
 
-sed -i "s,-fPIC,$SLKCFLAGS," config.mk
-
-make
-strip *.so
-make install DESTDIR=$PKG
+mkdir build
+cd build
+  CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+  CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+  meson .. \
+    --buildtype=release \
+    --infodir=/usr/info \
+    --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
+    --localstatedir=/var \
+    --mandir=/usr/man \
+    --prefix=/usr \
+    --sysconfdir=/etc \
+    -Dstrip=true
+  "${NINJA:=ninja}"
+  DESTDIR=$PKG $NINJA install
+cd ..
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a AUTHORS LICENSE $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
diff --git a/office/zathura-djvu/zathura-djvu.info b/office/zathura-djvu/zathura-djvu.info
index 7d30ac7226..613c1bb10a 100644
--- a/office/zathura-djvu/zathura-djvu.info
+++ b/office/zathura-djvu/zathura-djvu.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="zathura-djvu"
-VERSION="0.2.7"
+VERSION="0.2.9"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pwmt/zathura-djvu"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/pwmt/zathura-djvu/archive/0.2.7/zathura-djvu-0.2.7.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="a110cd8555ce678cf74f9a20c0f65670"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/pwmt/zathura-djvu/archive/0.2.9/zathura-djvu-0.2.9.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="d2b3141f200391e609f6fc4fc012ea86"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="zathura"