diff --git a/srcpkgs/libreoffice/patches/no-tar.patch b/srcpkgs/libreoffice/patches/no-tar.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 888ae4019c9..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libreoffice/patches/no-tar.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- a/bin/unpack-sources
-+++ b/bin/unpack-sources
-@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ for tarball in $tarballs ; do
-     if ! mkdir -p "$lo_src_dir/$tarname" ; then
-         echo "Error: could not create directory $lo_src_dir/$tarname"
-     fi
--    echo tar -xf "$tarball" -C "$lo_src_dir/$tarname" --strip-components=1
--    if ! tar -xf "$tarball" -C "$lo_src_dir/$tarname" --strip-components=1; then
-+    echo bsdtar -xf "$tarball" -C "$lo_src_dir/$tarname" --strip-components=1
-+    if ! bsdtar -xf "$tarball" -C "$lo_src_dir/$tarname" --strip-components=1; then
-         echo "Error: could not unpack $tarname"
-         exit 1
-     fi
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template b/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template
index 90716364482..b044d0b4e34 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libreoffice/template
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ _xdeps="zlib-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel clucene-devel expat-devel xmlsec1-devel
  libwebp-devel fontconfig-devel libcmis-devel
  gobject-introspection libgirepository-devel libglib-devel"
 hostmakedepends="automake flex gperf hyphen icu libtool openldap which gettext
- tar perl-Archive-Zip pkg-config sane unzip zip python3-setuptools
+ tar xz perl-Archive-Zip pkg-config sane unzip zip python3-setuptools
  fontforge python3-lxml qt6-base gnupg glib-devel
  $(vopt_if java 'openjdk17 apache-ant beanshell rhino hsqldb1.8.0')"
 makedepends="$_xdeps openssl-devel libXrender-devel libbluetooth-devel