diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 4f499230a30..c06e0fe9d4b 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2347,3 +2347,4 @@ libIrcModel.so.3 libcommuni-3.4.0_1
 libtolua.so tolua-5.2.0_1
 libhwloc.so.5 libhwloc-1.11.2_1
 libnetfilter_cttimeout.so.1 libnetfilter_cttimeout-1.0.0_1
+libnetfilter_cthelper.so.0 libnetfilter_cthelper-1.0.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libnetfilter_cthelper-devel b/srcpkgs/libnetfilter_cthelper-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..82f34a8e213
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libnetfilter_cthelper-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libnetfilter_cthelper
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libnetfilter_cthelper/template b/srcpkgs/libnetfilter_cthelper/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0e784ff7d48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libnetfilter_cthelper/template
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Template file for 'libnetfilter_cthelper'
+pkgname=libnetfilter_cthelper
+version=1.0.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="libmnl-devel"
+short_desc="Interface to the connection tracking user-space helper infrastructure"
+maintainer="Michael Gehring <mg@ebfe.org>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_cthelper/index.html"
+distfiles="http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_cthelper/files/libnetfilter_cthelper-${version}.tar.bz2"
+checksum=07618e71c4d9a6b6b3dc1986540486ee310a9838ba754926c7d14a17d8fccf3d
+
+libnetfilter_cthelper-devel_package() {
+	depends="${makedepends} ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}
+