diff --git a/office/sent/README b/office/sent/README
index 3bb63afce93..3e0e5f121df 100644
--- a/office/sent/README
+++ b/office/sent/README
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ The presentation is displayed in a simple X11 window.
 
 If you wish patches:
  Create 'patches' directory and add patches files on it. Declare
- variable PATCHES to yes (PATCHES=yes) before run SlackBuild script.
+ variable PATCHES to yes before run SlackBuild script.
+
+  PATCHES=yes ./sent.SlackBuild
 
 Optional dependency: farbfeld (include images).
diff --git a/office/sent/sent.SlackBuild b/office/sent/sent.SlackBuild
index 0e8452a73af..28e9dc88005 100644
--- a/office/sent/sent.SlackBuild
+++ b/office/sent/sent.SlackBuild
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=sent
 VERSION=${VERSION:-1}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
 
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ mkdir $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 
 tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz -C $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+chown -R root:root .
+chmod 644 *
 
 # apply patches if variable PATCHES is 'yes'
 if [ "${PATCHES:-no}" = "yes" ]; then
@@ -79,9 +81,6 @@ if [ "${PATCHES:-no}" = "yes" ]; then
  done
 fi
 
-chown -R root:root .
-chmod 644 *
-
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 make
 make install \