diff --git a/extra/pyqt/PKGBUILD b/extra/pyqt/PKGBUILD
index 66c066f16..0b33efc0d 100644
--- a/extra/pyqt/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/pyqt/PKGBUILD
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ plugrel=1
 
 pkgbase=pyqt
 pkgname=('pyqt' 'python2-pyqt')
-pkgver=4.8.6
+pkgver=4.9
 pkgrel=2
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro"
@@ -19,12 +19,17 @@ license=('GPL')
 makedepends=('qt' 'python-sip' 'dbus-python' 'python2-sip' 'phonon'
              'python-opengl' 'qt-assistant-compat' 'qtwebkit')
 source=("http://riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Downloads/PyQt4/PyQt-x11-gpl-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+        "fix-qthelp-build.patch"
         "PyQt4-4.7.3-qreal_float_support.patch")
-md5sums=('9bfd7b08b8e438b83cc50d5c58191f97'
+md5sums=('61619500d09d87b6c2a25bd3ea994504'
+         '356a453331a33c507b1baba4a9771764'
          'a20d7022e91071f838bd4908851a0f7b')
 
 build() {
   cd "${srcdir}"
+
+  patch -p0 -i "${srcdir}"/fix-qthelp-build.patch
+
   cp -r PyQt-x11-gpl-${pkgver} Py2Qt-x11-gpl-${pkgver}
 
   cd "${srcdir}/PyQt-x11-gpl-${pkgver}"
diff --git a/extra/pyqt/fix-qthelp-build.patch b/extra/pyqt/fix-qthelp-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cf0cbf171
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/pyqt/fix-qthelp-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- PyQt-x11-gpl-4.9/configure.py~	2011-12-23 14:53:07.981490550 +0100
++++ PyQt-x11-gpl-4.9/configure.py	2011-12-23 14:52:38.384984221 +0100
+@@ -1264,7 +1264,7 @@
+     opengl = (mname == "QtOpenGL")
+
+     qt = [mname]
+-    if mname in ("QtOpenGL", "QtWebKit"):
++    if mname in ("QtHelp", "QtOpenGL", "QtWebKit"):
+         qt.append("QtCore")
+
+     makefile = sipconfig.ProgramMakefile(sipcfg, console=1, qt=qt, warnings=0,