diff --git a/development/le/le.SlackBuild b/development/le/le.SlackBuild
index 576d822778..357272b3d7 100644
--- a/development/le/le.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/le/le.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=le
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.16.5}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.16.6}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.xz
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
-autoreconf -vfs
+NOCONFIGURE=y ./autogen.sh
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 ./configure \
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
   --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
   --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
 
+sed -i 's/lsupc++/lsupc++\ -lstdc++/' src/Makefile
 make
 make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 
diff --git a/development/le/le.info b/development/le/le.info
index a6f8349d1a..a7b3337954 100644
--- a/development/le/le.info
+++ b/development/le/le.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="le"
-VERSION="1.16.5"
-HOMEPAGE="http://lav.yar.ru/programs.html"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/lavv17/le/releases/download/v1.16.5/le-1.16.5.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="ff3841f35feafcb6249f322cc3e232ce"
+VERSION="1.16.6"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/lavv17/le"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/lavv17/le/archive/v1.16.6/le-1.16.6.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="cb2bfa53175a676228676d730cc1c497"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="gnulib"