diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index db132dbed7f..426b4f0a045 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1722,3 +1722,4 @@ libcaja-extension.so.1 libcaja-1.8.1_1
 libmatekbd.so.4 libmatekbd-1.8.0_1
 libmatekbdui.so.4 libmatekbd-1.8.0_1
 libmate-window-settings.so.1 libmate-control-center-1.8.1_1
+libmateweather.so.1 libmateweather-1.8.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libmateweather-devel b/srcpkgs/libmateweather-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..fd2bcad4c78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libmateweather-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libmateweather
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libmateweather/template b/srcpkgs/libmateweather/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4f6757c9b10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libmateweather/template
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Template file for 'libmateweather'
+pkgname=libmateweather
+version=1.8.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--with-gtk=2.0 --disable-static --disable-python
+ --enable-locations-compression --with-zoneinfo-dir=/usr/share/zoneinfo"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config intltool itstool"
+makedepends="gtk+-devel libsoup-devel"
+depends="dconf"
+short_desc="Provides access to weather information from the Internet for MATE"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="LGPL-2"
+homepage="http://mate-desktop.org"
+distfiles="http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.8/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
+checksum=801ec5512e9099c39ce819a82e2dde62477a3783894a5e7fbfff3493d04607ba
+
+libmateweather-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${makedepends} ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove usr/share/gtk-doc
+	}
+}