diff --git a/packages/debug/meta b/packages/debug/meta
index 89e78eaf05..45538f7df7 100644
--- a/packages/debug/meta
+++ b/packages/debug/meta
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.openelec.tv"
 PKG_URL=""
-PKG_DEPENDS="acpica cpuid dmidecode dstat evtest gdb hddtemp htop i2c-tools iftop pmtools powertop smem strace wireless_tools tcpdump"
+PKG_DEPENDS="acpica cpuid dmidecode dstat evtest gdb hddtemp htop i2c-tools iftop pmtools powertop smem strace wireless_tools"
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="debug"
diff --git a/packages/network/tcpdump/build b/packages/network/tcpdump/build
deleted file mode 100755
index 83ac32aff1..0000000000
--- a/packages/network/tcpdump/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      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
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-cd $PKG_BUILD
-
-# When cross-compiling, configure can't set linux version
-# forcing it
-sed -i -e 's/ac_cv_linux_vers=unknown/ac_cv_linux_vers=2/' configure
-
-./configure \
-       --host=$TARGET_NAME \
-       --build=$HOST_NAME \
-       --with-pcap=linux \
-       --with-crypto=no \
-       --disable-ipv6
-
-
-# discard native system includes
-sed -i "s%-I/usr/include%%g" Makefile
-
-$MAKE
diff --git a/packages/network/tcpdump/install b/packages/network/tcpdump/install
deleted file mode 100755
index 677d4d5435..0000000000
--- a/packages/network/tcpdump/install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      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
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/sbin
-  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/tcpdump $INSTALL/usr/sbin
-
diff --git a/packages/network/tcpdump/meta b/packages/network/tcpdump/meta
deleted file mode 100644
index ff8e396fe9..0000000000
--- a/packages/network/tcpdump/meta
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#      Copyright (C) 2011 Anthony Nash (nash.ant@gmail.com)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="tcpdump"
-PKG_VERSION="4.3.0"
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_SITE="http://www.tcpdump.org/"
-PKG_URL="http://www.tcpdump.org/release/tcpdump-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain libpcap"
-PKG_PRIORITY=optional
-PKG_SECTION="network"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition"
-PKG_LONGDESC="This program allows you to dump the traffic on a network. tcpdump is able to examine IPv4, ICMPv4, IPv6, ICMPv6, UDP, TCP, SNMP, AFS BGP, RIP, PIM, DVMRP, IGMP, SMB, OSPF, NFS and many other packet types."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-
-PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"