diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index b5de70e120..f2a7b6b984 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -1273,7 +1273,6 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   %D%/packages/patches/lua-liblua-so.patch                      \
   %D%/packages/patches/luajit-no_ldconfig.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/luit-posix.patch				\
-  %D%/packages/patches/luminance-hdr-qt-printer.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/lvm2-static-link.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/make-impure-dirs.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/mariadb-client-test-32bit.patch		\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/image-viewers.scm b/gnu/packages/image-viewers.scm
index 610a3d77bf..f93b353dd6 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/image-viewers.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/image-viewers.scm
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF formats.")
 (define-public luminance-hdr
   (package
     (name "luminance-hdr")
-    (version "2.4.0")
+    (version "2.6.0")
     (source (origin
               (method url-fetch)
               (uri (string-append
@@ -337,8 +337,7 @@ It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF formats.")
                     version "/luminance-hdr-" version ".tar.bz2"))
               (sha256
                (base32
-                "00fldbcizrx8jcnjgq74n3zmbm27dxzl96fxa7q49689mfnlw08l"))
-              (patches (search-patches "luminance-hdr-qt-printer.patch"))))
+                "188q0l63nfasqfvwbq4mwx2vh7wsfi2bq9n5nksddspl1qz01lnp"))))
     (build-system cmake-build-system)
     (native-inputs
      `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
@@ -346,8 +345,10 @@ It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF formats.")
     (inputs
      `(("qtbase" ,qtbase)
        ("qtdeclarative" ,qtdeclarative)
+       ("qtsvg" ,qtsvg)
        ("qtwebkit" ,qtwebkit)
        ("boost" ,boost)
+       ("eigen" ,eigen)
        ;; ("gtest" ,gtest)
        ("libraw" ,libraw)
        ("zlib" ,zlib)
@@ -360,7 +361,8 @@ It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF formats.")
        ("gsl" ,gsl)
        ("libtiff" ,libtiff)))
     (arguments
-     '(#:phases
+     '(#:tests? #f  ;XXX: some tests fail to compile
+       #:phases
        (modify-phases %standard-phases
          (add-after 'set-paths 'add-ilmbase-include-path
            (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/luminance-hdr-qt-printer.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/luminance-hdr-qt-printer.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c65f9537cd..0000000000
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/luminance-hdr-qt-printer.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-Allow the 'QtPrinter' header to be found, as described
-at <https://github.com/LuminanceHDR/LuminanceHDR/issues/11>.
-
-diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
-index fbad8a2..8379c8a 100644
---- a/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ find_package(Qt5Xml)
- find_package(Qt5Sql)
- find_package(Qt5Network)
- find_package(Qt5LinguistTools)
-+find_package(Qt5PrintSupport REQUIRED)
- IF(WIN32)
- 	find_package(Qt5WinExtras)
- ENDIF()
-diff --git a/src/HelpBrowser/CMakeLists.txt b/src/HelpBrowser/CMakeLists.txt
-index 04319a8..5537dae 100644
---- a/src/HelpBrowser/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/src/HelpBrowser/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ QT5_WRAP_UI(FILES_UI_H ${FILES_UI})
- 
- 
- ADD_LIBRARY(helpbrowser ${FILES_H} ${FILES_CPP} ${FILES_MOC} ${FILES_UI_H} ${FILES_HXX})
--qt5_use_modules(helpbrowser Core Concurrent Gui Widgets Xml WebKit WebKitWidgets)
-+qt5_use_modules(helpbrowser Core Concurrent Gui Widgets Xml WebKit WebKitWidgets PrintSupport)
- 
- SET(FILES_TO_TRANSLATE ${FILES_TO_TRANSLATE} ${FILES_CPP} ${FILES_H} ${FILES_UI} ${FILES_HXX} PARENT_SCOPE)
- SET(LUMINANCE_MODULES_GUI ${LUMINANCE_MODULES_GUI} helpbrowser PARENT_SCOPE)