diff --git a/packages/lesspipe/build.sh b/packages/lesspipe/build.sh
index cd2218e63..2e56b4e81 100644
--- a/packages/lesspipe/build.sh
+++ b/packages/lesspipe/build.sh
@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="An input filter for the pager less"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.04
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe/archive/refs/tags/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=b65ee79b7b51510e6f2097a22d3c7985805a53d9e33b0afdfe129f2a1f89cc23
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="less"
 TERMUX_PKG_SUGGESTS="imagemagick, p7zip, unrar, unzip"
+TERMUX_PKG_PLATFORM_INDEPENDENT=true
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true
 
 termux_step_configure() {
diff --git a/packages/lesspipe/lesspipe.sh.patch b/packages/lesspipe/lesspipe.sh.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..457878640
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/lesspipe/lesspipe.sh.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/lesspipe.sh
++++ b/lesspipe.sh
+@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@
+ setopt sh_word_split 2>/dev/null
+ PATH=$PATH:${0%%/lesspipe.sh}
+ # the current locale in lowercase (or generic utf-8)
+-locale=$(locale|grep LC_CTYPE|sed 's/.*"\(.*\)"/\1/') || locale=en_US.UTF-8
++locale=en_US.UTF-8
+ lclocale=$(echo ${locale##*.}|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
+ 
+ sep=:					# file name separator