diff --git a/packages/libkiwix/build.sh b/packages/libkiwix/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a5ef49aa46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libkiwix/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="A library that contains a lot of things used by other kiwix programs"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=12.0.0
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/archive/refs/tags/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=8608ef73fdaa34c28144eb5ad732a74ca94dd99710d08d7a1ddb1277d1985b02
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++, libcurl, libicu, libmicrohttpd, libpugixml, libxapian, libzim, zlib"
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="googletest, kainjow-mustache"
diff --git a/packages/libkiwix/kiwix.pc.in.patch b/packages/libkiwix/kiwix.pc.in.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92139984f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libkiwix/kiwix.pc.in.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+--- a/kiwix.pc.in
++++ b/kiwix.pc.in
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ prefix=@prefix@
+-libdir=${prefix}/lib64
++libdir=${prefix}/lib
+ includedir=${prefix}/include
+ 
+ Name: libkiwix
diff --git a/packages/libkiwix/src-tools-pathTools.cpp.patch b/packages/libkiwix/src-tools-pathTools.cpp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5ce18a51ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libkiwix/src-tools-pathTools.cpp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/src/tools/pathTools.cpp
++++ b/src/tools/pathTools.cpp
+@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
+   _wmkdir(ctmp);
+   return WideToUtf8(ctmp);
+ #else
+-  char _template_array[] = {"/tmp/libkiwix_XXXXXX"};
++  char _template_array[] = {"@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/libkiwix_XXXXXX"};
+   std::string dir = mkdtemp(_template_array);
+   return dir;
+ #endif