diff --git a/packages/apt-file/apt-file.patch b/packages/apt-file/apt-file.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6847dacdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/apt-file/apt-file.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/apt-file b/apt-file
+index 57c76b489..4fce27066 100644
+--- a/apt-file
++++ b/apt-file
+@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ sub open_data_pipeline {
+         my @cat_cmd = (
+             'xargs',
+             '-0r',
+-            '/usr/lib/apt/apt-helper',
++            '@TERMUX_PREFIX@/lib/apt/apt-helper',
+             @apt_options,
+             'cat-file'
+         );
diff --git a/packages/apt-file/build.sh b/packages/apt-file/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6b9efab87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/apt-file/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://wiki.debian.org/apt-file
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="search for files within packages"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=3.2.2
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt-file/apt-file_${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=bacbfb038dca6d2f0b740dcd05064d0b81fd0f086ce2eb59c5157d13ef064edf
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libapt-pkg-perl, perl"
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true
+TERMUX_PKG_PLATFORM_INDEPENDENT=true
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_MAKE_ARGS="DESTDIR=$TERMUX_PREFIX BINDIR=$TERMUX_PREFIX/bin \
+				MANDIR=$TERMUX_PREFIX/share/man/man1"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/libapt-pkg-perl/build.sh b/packages/libapt-pkg-perl/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f14964d8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libapt-pkg-perl/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://packages.debian.org/libapt-pkg-perl
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Perl interface to APT's libapt-pkg"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.1.40
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libapt-pkg-perl/libapt-pkg-perl_${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=524d2ef77f3d6896c50e7674022d85e4a391a6a2b3c65ba5e50ac671fa7ce4a1
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="apt, perl"
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true
+
+
+termux_step_make() {
+	local perl_version=$(. $TERMUX_SCRIPTDIR/packages/perl/build.sh; echo $TERMUX_PKG_VERSION)
+	CFLAGS+=" -I$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/perl5/$perl_version/${TERMUX_ARCH}-android/CORE \
+		-I$TERMUX_PREFIX/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+	LDFLAGS+=" -L$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/perl5/$perl_version/${TERMUX_ARCH}-android/CORE \
+		-L$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib -lperl"
+	perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=perl DESTDIR="$TERMUX_PKG_MASSAGEDIR" \
+		INSTALLMAN3DIR="$TERMUX_PREFIX/share/man/man3" \
+		LIB=$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/perl5/site_perl/$perl_version/${TERMUX_ARCH}-android
+	make CC="${CC}++" LD="${CC}++" OTHERLDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" CCFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+}
+
+termux_step_post_massage() {
+	local perl_version=$(. $TERMUX_SCRIPTDIR/packages/perl/build.sh; echo $TERMUX_PKG_VERSION)
+	mv $TERMUX_PKG_MASSAGEDIR/$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/perl5/site_perl/$perl_version/${TERMUX_ARCH}-android/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/* \
+		$TERMUX_PKG_MASSAGEDIR/$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/perl5/site_perl/$perl_version/${TERMUX_ARCH}-android/
+	rm -rf $TERMUX_PKG_MASSAGEDIR/$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/perl5/site_perl/$perl_version/${TERMUX_ARCH}-android/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
+}
diff --git a/packages/perl/build.sh b/packages/perl/build.sh
index 0aea7bb15..b324bd9a5 100644
--- a/packages/perl/build.sh
+++ b/packages/perl/build.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
 # Packages which should be rebuilt after version change:
 # - exiftool
 # - irssi
+# - libapt-pkg-perl
 # - psutils
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=(5.34.0
                     1.3.6)