diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 1edb649e61d..aa5f7103aea 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1684,3 +1684,4 @@ libepoxy.so.0 libepoxy-1.2_1
 libfakekey.so.0 libfakekey-0.1_1
 libsmartcols.so.1 libsmartcols-2.25_1
 libspiro.so.0 libspiro-0.2_1
+libopenjp2.so.7 libopenjpeg2-2.1.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libopenjpeg2 b/srcpkgs/libopenjpeg2
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..42dd6d2a421
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libopenjpeg2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+openjpeg2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libopenjpeg2-devel b/srcpkgs/libopenjpeg2-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..42dd6d2a421
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libopenjpeg2-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+openjpeg2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/openjpeg2/template b/srcpkgs/openjpeg2/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9b432ee0be0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/openjpeg2/template
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Template file for 'openjpeg2'
+pkgname=openjpeg2
+version=2.1.0
+wrksrc="openjpeg-${version}"
+revision=1
+build_style=cmake
+maintainer="Dominik Honnef <dominik@honnef.co>"
+homepage="http://www.openjpeg.org/"
+license="BSD"
+short_desc="Open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language (Version 2)"
+hostmakedepends="cmake"
+makedepends="libpng-devel lcms2-devel tiff-devel"
+distfiles="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/openjpeg.mirror/${version}/openjpeg-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum="1232bb814fd88d8ed314c94f0bfebb03de8559583a33abbe8c64ef3fc0a8ff03"
+
+libopenjpeg2-devel_package() {
+    short_desc+=" - development files"
+    depends="libopenjpeg2>=${version}_${revision}"
+    pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/lib/openjpeg-2.*
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+    }
+}
+libopenjpeg2_package() {
+    short_desc+=" - library files"
+    pkg_install() {
+        vmove "usr/lib/*.so.*"
+    }
+}