diff --git a/packages/less/build.sh b/packages/less/build.sh
index 67d34a058..5cf5facd7 100644
--- a/packages/less/build.sh
+++ b/packages/less/build.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Terminal pager program used to view the contents of a text file one screen at a time"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=563
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=ce5b6d2b9fc4442d7a07c93ab128d2dff2ce09a1d4f2d055b95cf28dd0dc9a9a
-TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=590
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=6aadf54be8bf57d0e2999a3c5d67b1de63808bb90deb8f77b028eafae3a08e10
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses, pcre2"
 TERMUX_PKG_ESSENTIAL=true
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with-regex=pcre2"
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diff --git a/packages/less/less_multilib.patch b/packages/less/less_multilib.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 54f710de2..000000000
--- a/packages/less/less_multilib.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-Index: SOURCES/less-multilib.patch
-diff -u /dev/null SOURCES/less-multilib.patch:1.1
---- /dev/null	Fri Mar  2 18:37:48 2007
-+++ less-multilib.patch	Fri Mar  2 18:37:43 2007
-@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
-+--- less-394/Makefile.in.orig	2007-03-02 17:40:55.000000000 +0100
-++++ less-394/Makefile.in	2007-03-02 17:41:38.000000000 +0100
-+@@ -51,13 +51,13 @@
-+ all: less lesskey lessecho
-+ 
-+ less: ${OBJ}
-+-	${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o $@ ${OBJ} ${LIBS}
-++	${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o $@ ${OBJ} ${LIBS}
-+ 
-+ lesskey: lesskey.${O} version.${O}
-+-	${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o $@ lesskey.${O} version.${O}
-++	${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o $@ lesskey.${O} version.${O}
-+ 
-+ lessecho: lessecho.${O} version.${O}
-+-	${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o $@ lessecho.${O} version.${O}
-++	${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o $@ lessecho.${O} version.${O}
-+ 
-+ ${OBJ}: ${srcdir}/less.h ${srcdir}/funcs.h defines.h 
-+ 
-