diff --git a/media-libs/hamlib/Manifest b/media-libs/hamlib/Manifest
index fba02495b5958..9af00835dea4d 100644
--- a/media-libs/hamlib/Manifest
+++ b/media-libs/hamlib/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST hamlib-4.5.5.tar.gz 2603846 BLAKE2B ad4a286a7aa1e972707cb9ed15a4268909a7d252a64b98b01d35c9d9e42c605cd600e819e195e49d501c1e135191fda585581e27801fa217c9141236a81ad770 SHA512 2cdff2630e89fa95c7ac40e998492e8a04e000fcca18b9491ddcb967927ffaa771ed2e6ac3232a060947883533a6ae7405042a2f8fdb1de157d71f74381f5899
 DIST hamlib-4.6.1.tar.gz 2909273 BLAKE2B d8ab443bd19068ec76fbe021f9dcdbaf3cead9a6eac1eab47c148c35fe7c98d294d50386cc3c386e8113ac26a9aa594f7a9d121e81601c84660350115566b1b6 SHA512 3363665e2fc5541e2bd68767e9c0d8c856a7d2ea9a7e4a2d7e79d6e7349150642cba4e96d27ab6dc029fd838e05c3f0f9f7acadcc7c8bc51bedaf61ef67e95ce
+DIST hamlib-4.6.2.tar.gz 2909790 BLAKE2B 8bba73b446be13f4be592333b51b863f7299d189c640e2d1bfb6dd82f8f5e19ed6a1f39be09811d2061bb416696dd24907a9248b7bc96360e7a0fec8783701b1 SHA512 8b8b7e4c95e4331f1ace1d724924e30c66a88d04d5354fd28d28090b751184300196e4512504136ece98cef374e69dd58cc597819f8802ddadb978c7a0bf731d
diff --git a/media-libs/hamlib/hamlib-4.6.2.ebuild b/media-libs/hamlib/hamlib-4.6.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..93bef7210d3ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-libs/hamlib/hamlib-4.6.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..12} )
+MY_P=${P/_rc2/~rc2}
+
+inherit autotools flag-o-matic python-single-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Ham radio backend rig control libraries"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.hamlib.github.io"
+SRC_URI="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/hamlib/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2+ GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0/4.2"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~riscv ~x86"
+IUSE="doc perl python tcl"
+
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	=virtual/libusb-0*
+	dev-libs/libxml2
+	sys-libs/readline:0=
+	perl? ( dev-lang/perl )
+	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
+	tcl? ( dev-lang/tcl:0= )"
+
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	dev-lang/swig
+	dev-build/autoconf-archive
+	>=dev-build/libtool-2.2
+	doc? ( app-text/doxygen
+		dev-util/source-highlight )"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+DOCS=(AUTHORS NEWS PLAN README README.betatester README.developer)
+
+PATCHES=( "$FILESDIR/hamlib-drop-lua.patch" )
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	use python && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# Correct install target to whatever INSTALLDIRS says and use vendor
+	# installdirs everywhere (bug #611550)
+	sed -i -e "s#install_site#install#"	\
+	-e 's#MAKEFILE="Hamlib-pl.mk"#MAKEFILE="Hamlib-pl.mk" INSTALLDIRS=vendor#' \
+	bindings/Makefile.am || die "sed failed patching for perl"
+
+	# make building of documentation compatible with autotools-utils
+	sed -i -e "s/doc:/html:/g" doc/Makefile.am || die "sed failed"
+
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	# -Werror=lto-type-mismatch
+	# https://bugs.gentoo.org/926839
+	# https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/issues/1524
+	filter-lto
+
+	econf \
+		--libdir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/hamlib \
+		--disable-static \
+		--with-xml-support \
+		$(use_with perl perl-binding) \
+		$(use_with python python-binding) \
+		$(use_with tcl tcl-binding)
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	emake
+	use doc && emake html
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
+
+	use python && python_optimize
+
+	use doc && HTML_DOCS=( doc/html/ )
+	einstalldocs
+
+	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/pkgconfig
+	doins hamlib.pc
+
+	echo "LDPATH=/usr/$(get_libdir)/hamlib" > "${T}"/73hamlib
+	doenvd "${T}"/73hamlib
+
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}