diff --git a/lib/libapse.lib.in b/lib/libapse.lib.in
index 8855b92..16bce9d 100644
--- a/lib/libapse.lib.in
+++ b/lib/libapse.lib.in
@@ -433,12 +433,9 @@ sort -t. -n -r -k1 -k2 -k3 -k4 -k5 -k6 -k7 -k8 -k9 -k10 ))
       notify.note $"looking at"" ${NOTE}(#1)${NORM} \
 <${NOTE}${apse_site_name[1]}${NORM}>..."
 
-      local prj_name
-      prj_name="$specname"
-      [ "$prj_name" ] || notify.error $"\
-(bug)"" -- $FUNCNAME: "$"assertion failed:"" \"\$prj_name\" != \"\""
+      [ "$src_name" ] || src_name="$specname"
 
-      curr_curl_url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/$prj_name/files/latest"
+      curr_curl_url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/$src_name/files/latest/download"
       notify.debug \
          "running: curl \$curr_curl_proxy_opts -s -L \"$curr_curl_url\""
       curl $curr_curl_proxy_opts -I -A Linux -s -L "$curr_curl_url" \
@@ -455,27 +452,16 @@ sort -t. -n -r -k1 -k2 -k3 -k4 -k5 -k6 -k7 -k8 -k9 -k10 ))
       [ "$retval" = "0" ] &&
       if [ "$(sed -n "s,.*Invalid Project.*,error,pi" $fcurlout)" != \
            "error" ]; then
-         [ "$src_name" ] || src_name="$specname"
 
          pck_file=`grep -i -m1 "Location:" $fcurlout | \
 grep -i "$src_name" | \
-sed -n "s,Location: \(.*\)/download,\1,pi"`
+sed -n "s,Location: \(.*\)?.*,\1,pi"`
          notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: pck_file = \"$pck_file\""
 
-         [ "$src_name" ] && unset src_name
-         new_version=`echo $pck_file | sed "s|.*/\([0-9.]*\)/.*|\1|"`
+         new_version=`echo $pck_file | sed "s|.*/$src_name-\([0-9]*[0-9.]*[0-9]\)[^0-9]*.*|\1|"`
+         [ "$new_version" = "$pck_file" ] && new_version=
 
-         [ "$new_version" ] || \
-         new_version=`echo $pck_file | sed -n "\
-/[0-9]/!q       # return nothing if no number is found in the package name
-s,.*/,,         # remove directory name, if any
-s/\.[^0-9].*//  # remove trailing stuff (.tar.gz, ...)
-s|.*/\([0-9.]*\)/.*|\1|
-/-[0-9]*/{s/.*-\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/p;q}              # <pck_name>-<pck_ver>
-/_[0-9]*/{s/.*_\([0-9]*.*\)/\1/p;q}              # <pck_name>_<pck_ver>
-/[^-\.][0-9]\./{s/.*[^-\.]\([0-9]\..*\)/\1/p;q}  # <pck_name><pck_ver>
-# <pck_name> (no version, but <pck_name> can end with numbers)
-/^[^0-9]*[0-9]*$/q"`
+         [ "$src_name" ] && unset src_name
       fi
 
       if [ "$new_version" ]; then