diff --git a/package/libite/libite.hash b/package/libite/libite.hash
index 6f461f9b76..1dec65bd6b 100644
--- a/package/libite/libite.hash
+++ b/package/libite/libite.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Upstream .sha256 from GitHub
-sha256  8fad6b8a1e7e0d6b546863104dfe25dfe0bb2d2a9b98ec8e155d23392ef58514  libite-2.4.1.tar.xz
+sha256  5278fa0ca933727c78f4e05082cea58256d9302afac30bad0c3760cf2a18ef8f  libite-2.5.1.tar.xz
 
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  20db0601195f708d68ff7907907b3cd3b25808efa8332e064b11f00c839a5d2f  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/libite/libite.mk b/package/libite/libite.mk
index 7ccf642e50..185ffe77de 100644
--- a/package/libite/libite.mk
+++ b/package/libite/libite.mk
@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBITE_VERSION = 2.4.1
+LIBITE_VERSION = 2.5.1
 LIBITE_SOURCE = libite-$(LIBITE_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBITE_SITE = https://github.com/troglobit/libite/releases/download/v$(LIBITE_VERSION)
 LIBITE_LICENSE = MIT, X11, ISC, BSD-2-Clause
 LIBITE_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE src/chomp.c src/pidfile.c
 LIBITE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
+LIBITE_CONF_OPTS = --without-symlink
 
 $(eval $(autotools-package))