diff --git a/main/wget/APKBUILD b/main/wget/APKBUILD
index 320273372bf..10e9b4e6f6c 100644
--- a/main/wget/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/wget/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@gmail.com>
 pkgname=wget
 pkgver=1.16.3
-pkgrel=0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A network utility to retrieve files from the Web"
 url="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html"
 arch="all"
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ license="GPL3+"
 depends=""
 makedepends="openssl-dev perl"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
-install="wget.post-deinstall"
+install=""
 source="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
 _builddir="$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver
diff --git a/main/wget/wget.post-deinstall b/main/wget/wget.post-deinstall
deleted file mode 100644
index 05456cda653..00000000000
--- a/main/wget/wget.post-deinstall
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# apk uses wget so we must restore the busybox wget symlink early
-exec /bin/busybox --install -s