diff --git a/srcpkgs/apt/template b/srcpkgs/apt/template
index 17f842c3484..293d85a679a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/apt/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/apt/template
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # Template file for 'apt'
 pkgname=apt
-version=2.5.2
+version=2.9.7
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
 configure_args="-DDPKG_DATADIR=/usr/share/dpkg -DCURRENT_VENDOR=debian
  -DDOCBOOK_XSL=/usr/share/xsl/docbook"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config docbook-xsl doxygen po4a w3m libxslt triehash"
+hostmakedepends="dpkg pkg-config docbook-xsl doxygen po4a w3m libxslt triehash"
 makedepends="db-devel gnutls-devel bzip2-devel liblzma-devel liblz4-devel
  libzstd-devel libseccomp-devel eudev-libudev-devel dpkg-devel gtest-devel
  libgcrypt-devel xxHash-devel"
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ maintainer="Elie ROUDNINSKI <xademax@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt"
 distfiles="https://github.com/Debian/apt/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=6f8817f1091a9f8fd001e9b84185cd198f739391e89e3cabcc253f46c4cf9d68
+checksum=c7fac36575c6a00f81caebc8947657943c4350a10c499833294adf723e013336
 
 case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
 	*-musl) broken="error: void value not ignored as it ought to be" ;;