diff --git a/doc-tools/texmaker/BUILD b/doc-tools/texmaker/BUILD
index ecfaf661b65..e981ad1260c 100644
--- a/doc-tools/texmaker/BUILD
+++ b/doc-tools/texmaker/BUILD
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-(
-
   . /etc/profile.d/qt4.rc                                       &&
 
   PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH                                         &&
@@ -15,5 +13,3 @@
   make install                                                  &&
 
   gather_docs CHANGELOG.txt
-
-) > $C_FIFO 2>&1
diff --git a/doc-tools/texmaker/DEPENDS b/doc-tools/texmaker/DEPENDS
index 9e2d30837f2..9fbebd8ccb3 100644
--- a/doc-tools/texmaker/DEPENDS
+++ b/doc-tools/texmaker/DEPENDS
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 depends  qt4
+depends  poppler
 
-# strictly speaking, the packages below are not required for building and are
-# only needed by texmaker at run-time, so are they optional_depends or not?
+# run-time dependencies
 
 optional_depends  texlive      ""  ""  "for TeX document processing"
 optional_depends  ghostscript  ""  ""  "for conversion to HTML"
 optional_depends  hunspell     ""  ""  "for spell checking documents"
-
-# lin barfs here if poppler is installed, because it conflicts with xpdf
-# optional_depends  xpdf       ""  ""  "for viewing generated PDF files"
diff --git a/doc-tools/texmaker/DETAILS b/doc-tools/texmaker/DETAILS
index 2d22e87e34e..5972b8fcd11 100644
--- a/doc-tools/texmaker/DETAILS
+++ b/doc-tools/texmaker/DETAILS
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
           MODULE=texmaker
-         VERSION=4.0.3
+         VERSION=4.1
           SOURCE=$MODULE-$VERSION.tar.bz2
       SOURCE_URL=http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
-      SOURCE_VFY=sha1:130cfd588eb0fd023ac3726522cfe456c2c4094c
+      SOURCE_VFY=sha1:91c9cfead9d9d7c7696721b8c5c754ca60a0cc13
         WEB_SITE=http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
          ENTERED=20071107
-         UPDATED=20130731
+         UPDATED=20131101
            SHORT="free cross-platform LaTeX editor"
 
 cat << EOF