diff --git a/packages/compress/unzip/package.mk b/packages/compress/unzip/package.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e116185d12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/compress/unzip/package.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="unzip"
+PKG_VERSION="60"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/"
+PKG_URL="http://ftp.uk.i-scream.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/$PKG_NAME$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_SOURCE_DIR="${PKG_NAME}${PKG_VERSION}"
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="compress"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="unzip: PKUNZIP compatible compression utility"
+PKG_LONGDESC="UnZip is an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format (also called "zipfiles"). Although highly compatible both with PKWARE's PKZIP and PKUNZIP utilities for MS-DOS and with Info-ZIP's own Zip program, the primary objectives have been portability and non-MSDOS functionality."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
+
+make_target() {
+    make CC=$TARGET_CC \
+      RANLIB=$TARGET_RANLIB \
+      AR=$TARGET_AR \
+      STRIP=$TARGET_STRIP \
+      CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" \
+      -f unix/Makefile generic
+}
+
+makeinstall_target() {
+  mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/bin
+    cp unzip $INSTALL/usr/bin
+    $STRIP $INSTALL/usr/bin/unzip
+}
+
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/meta b/packages/sysutils/busybox/meta
index ccd78e3111..32a1a303a4 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/meta
+++ b/packages/sysutils/busybox/meta
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.busybox.net"
 PKG_URL="http://busybox.net/downloads/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
-PKG_DEPENDS="hdparm dosfstools e2fsprogs speedcontrol zip pciutils usbutils parted"
+PKG_DEPENDS="hdparm dosfstools e2fsprogs speedcontrol zip unzip pciutils usbutils parted"
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain busybox-hosttools"
 PKG_PRIORITY="required"
 PKG_SECTION="system"