diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 6ebee90..480c153 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com>
 # Contributor: Hannes Graeuler <hgraeule @ uos dot de>
 
-# this is needed only for building the imagequant-sys crate
-_libver=4.2.2
-
 pkgname=pngquant
 pkgver=3.0.3
 pkgrel=1
@@ -11,17 +8,14 @@ pkgdesc="Command-line utility to quantize PNGs down to 8-bit paletted PNGs"
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://pngquant.org/"
 license=('BSD')
-depends=('libpng' 'lcms2' 'libimagequant')
+depends=('libpng' 'lcms2')
 makedepends=('cargo')
-source=("https://github.com/kornelski/$pkgname/archive/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
-        "https://github.com/ImageOptim/libimagequant/archive/$_libver/libimagequant-$_libver.tar.gz")
-sha256sums=('ddd8889a9c269ba454d0c5e4f7167948d55d77c4570b23f671809fd3a68b6822'
-            'ff1a34d3df9a1a5e5c1fa3895c036a885dc7b9740d7fccdf57e9ed678b8fb3a3')
+source=("https://github.com/kornelski/$pkgname/archive/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz")
+sha256sums=('ddd8889a9c269ba454d0c5e4f7167948d55d77c4570b23f671809fd3a68b6822')
 
 prepare() {
     cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
-    rm -rf lib
-    ln -s ../libimagequant-$_libver lib
+    sed -i 's|, path = "lib/imagequant-sys"||' Cargo.toml
     cargo fetch --target "$CARCH-unknown-linux-gnu"
 }