diff --git a/gnu/packages/mpd.scm b/gnu/packages/mpd.scm
index a1b427271d..550e75d43f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/mpd.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/mpd.scm
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Cyrill Schenkel <cyrill.schenkel@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Ian Denhardt <ian@zenhack.net>
+;;; Copyright © 2015 Paul van der Walt <paul@denknerd.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@
   #:use-module (guix utils)
   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
   #:use-module (gnu packages avahi)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages boost)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages readline)
   #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
   #:use-module (gnu packages curl)
   #:use-module (gnu packages doxygen)
@@ -35,6 +38,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages mp3)
   #:use-module (gnu packages ncurses)
   #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages autotools)
   #:use-module (gnu packages pulseaudio)
   #:use-module (gnu packages databases)
   #:use-module (gnu packages video)
@@ -153,7 +157,7 @@ terminal using ncurses.")
 (define ncmpcpp
   (package
     (name "ncmpcpp")
-    (version "0.5.10")
+    (version "0.6.2")
     (source (origin
               (method url-fetch)
               (uri
@@ -161,11 +165,27 @@ terminal using ncurses.")
                               version ".tar.bz2"))
               (sha256
                (base32
-                "1a54g6dary1rirrny9fd0hpxpyyffypni3mpbdpvmjnrl9v56vgz"))))
+                "1mrd6m6ph0fscxp9x96ipxh6ai7w0n1miapcfqrqfy058qx5zbck"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (inputs `(("libmpdclient" ,libmpdclient)
+              ("boost"  ,boost)
+              ("readline" ,readline)
               ("ncurses" ,ncurses)))
-    (native-inputs `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
+       ("automake" ,automake)
+       ("autoconf" ,autoconf)
+       ("libtool" ,libtool)))
+    (arguments
+     '(#:configure-flags
+       '("BOOST_LIB_SUFFIX=")
+       #:phases
+       (alist-cons-after
+        'unpack 'autogen
+        (lambda _
+          (setenv "NOCONFIGURE" "true")
+          (zero? (system* "sh" "autogen.sh")))
+        %standard-phases)))
     (synopsis "Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc")
     (description "Ncmpcpp is an mpd client with a UI very similar to ncmpc,
 but it provides new useful features such as support for regular expressions