diff --git a/community/gnuradio/PKGBUILD b/community/gnuradio/PKGBUILD
index 1bbba1b7f..b4ee7cc1f 100644
--- a/community/gnuradio/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/gnuradio/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@
 
 pkgbase=gnuradio
 pkgname=(gnuradio gnuradio-companion)
-pkgver=3.7.7.1
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=3.7.8
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="General purpose DSP and SDR toolkit.  With drivers for usrp and fcd."
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://gnuradio.org"
 license=('GPL')
-depends=('fftw' 'python2-numpy' 'cppunit' 'gsl' 'blas' 'guile' 'boost-libs>=1.53' 'libusbx' 'portaudio' 'libuhd' 'zeromq')
+depends=('fftw' 'python2-numpy' 'cppunit' 'gsl' 'blas' 'boost-libs>=1.53' 'libusbx' 'portaudio' 'libuhd' 'zeromq')
 makedepends=('boost' 'cmake' 'python2-lxml' 'python2-cheetah' 'glu' 'swig'
     'pygtk' 'wxpython' 'python2-pyqwt' 'qwtplot3d')
 install=gnuradio.install
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ install=gnuradio.install
 #source=("http://s3-dist.gnuradio.org/gnuradio-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 source=("http://gnuradio.org/releases/$pkgbase/$pkgbase-$pkgver.tar.gz"
         "21-fcd.rules")
-md5sums=('ca8e47abcb01edc72014ccabe38123a3'
+md5sums=('afc83b06136537071397007c3243c02a'
          '465e12c454c6a22ebec9849181af7bdc')
 
 build() {
diff --git a/community/gnuradio/gnuradio.install b/community/gnuradio/gnuradio.install
index a0ff7bff5..c0c66c39e 100644
--- a/community/gnuradio/gnuradio.install
+++ b/community/gnuradio/gnuradio.install
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ post_upgrade() {
     rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "$_thisdir" &> /dev/null
   done <<<  "$(pacman -Qql $_pkg | grep '\.py$')"
 
-  update-desktop-database -q
+  if [[ -e /usr/bin/update-desktop-database ]]; then
+    update-desktop-database -q
+  fi
 }
 
 post_install() {