diff --git a/testing/verovio/0001-data-change-directory-to-usr-share-verovio.patch b/testing/verovio/0001-data-change-directory-to-usr-share-verovio.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5e20892849da0437b4545593016d25f22db6caaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/verovio/0001-data-change-directory-to-usr-share-verovio.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+From ae64b962a05237711ca79f6c9a7a529cf9d367f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Zach DeCook <zachdecook@librem.one>
+Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 19:34:03 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] data: change directory to /usr/share/verovio
+
+---
+ src/options.cpp | 2 +-
+ src/resources.cpp | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/options.cpp b/src/options.cpp
+index 2fd3868af..90c4aa16f 100644
+--- a/src/options.cpp
++++ b/src/options.cpp
+@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ Options::Options()
+ m_baseOptions.AddOption(&m_page);
+
+ m_resourcePath.SetInfo("Resource path", "Path to the directory with Verovio resources");
+- m_resourcePath.Init("/usr/local/share/verovio");
++ m_resourcePath.Init("/usr/share/verovio");
+ m_resourcePath.SetKey("resourcePath");
+ m_resourcePath.SetShortOption('r', true);
+ m_baseOptions.AddOption(&m_resourcePath);
+diff --git a/src/resources.cpp b/src/resources.cpp
+index d143beb14..c46affb35 100644
+--- a/src/resources.cpp
++++ b/src/resources.cpp
+@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ namespace vrv {
+ // Static members with some default values
+ //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+-thread_local std::string Resources::s_defaultPath = "/usr/local/share/verovio";
++thread_local std::string Resources::s_defaultPath = "/usr/share/verovio";
+ const Resources::StyleAttributes Resources::k_defaultStyle{ data_FONTWEIGHT::FONTWEIGHT_normal,
+ data_FONTSTYLE::FONTSTYLE_normal };
+
+--
+2.36.1
+
diff --git a/testing/verovio/APKBUILD b/testing/verovio/APKBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91083d94b2f1a809b74311b26817da7822c63a8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/verovio/APKBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+# Maintainer: Zach DeCook <zachdecook@librem.one>
+pkgname=verovio
+pkgver=3.10.0
+pkgrel=0
+_commit=845ab54
+pkgdesc="Music notation engraving for MEI with MusicXML and Humdrum support"
+url="https://www.verovio.org/index.xhtml"
+arch="all"
+license="LGPL-3.0-only"
+depends_dev="$pkgname-libs"
+makedepends="
+ cmake
+ py3-setuptools
+ python3-dev
+ samurai
+ swig
+ "
+subpackages="
+ $pkgname-data::noarch
+ $pkgname-libs
+ $pkgname-dev
+ py3-$pkgname:py3
+ "
+source="
+ $pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/rism-digital/verovio/archive/refs/tags/version-$pkgver.tar.gz
+ 0001-data-change-directory-to-usr-share-verovio.patch
+ fix-c-wrapper.patch
+ install-prefix.patch
+ commit-version.patch
+ python-data-path.patch
+ "
+builddir="$srcdir/$pkgname-version-$pkgver"
+
+prepare() {
+ default_prepare
+
+ sed -i "s|@@COMMIT@@|$_commit|" tools/get_git_commit.sh
+}
+
+build() {
+ cmake -B build-tools -G Ninja \
+ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
+ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=MinSizeRel \
+ -S cmake
+
+ cmake -B build-c-bindings -G Ninja \
+ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
+ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=MinSizeRel \
+ -DBUILD_AS_LIBRARY=ON \
+ -S cmake
+
+ cmake --build build-tools
+ cmake --build build-c-bindings
+ python3 setup.py build_ext
+}
+
+check() {
+ (
+ cd build-tools
+ ./verovio -r ../data ../doc/importer.mei
+ )
+
+ (
+ cp bindings/c/main.c build-c-bindings/main.c
+ # include is only one level up now
+ sed -i 's|/../|/|' build-c-bindings/main.c
+ cd build-c-bindings
+ gcc main.c -o main -L./ $CFLAGS -lverovio
+ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./ ./main
+ )
+}
+
+package() {
+ depends="$pkgname-data"
+ DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build-tools
+ DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build-c-bindings
+ python3 setup.py install --root="$pkgdir"
+
+ install -Dm644 tools/c_wrapper.h -t "$pkgdir"/usr/include/verovio
+ install -Dm644 fonts/VerovioText-1.0.ttf -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/fonts/verovio/
+}
+
+data() {
+ pkgdesc="$pkgdesc (data)"
+ depends="font-times"
+
+ amove usr/share/verovio
+ amove usr/share/fonts
+}
+
+libs() {
+ default_libs
+ depends="$pkgname-data"
+
+ # no versions for now
+ amove usr/lib/libverovio.so
+}
+
+py3() {
+ pkgdesc="$pkgdesc (python module)"
+ depends="$pkgname-data"
+
+ amove usr/lib/python3.*
+ # data is already in -data
+ rm -rf "$subpkgdir"/usr/lib/python3.*/site-packages/verovio/data
+ # this should not be installed
+ rm -f "$subpkgdir"/usr/lib/python3.*/site-packages/verovio/setup.py
+ rm -f "$subpkgdir"/usr/lib/python3.*/site-packages/verovio/__pycache__/setup.cpython-*.pyc
+}
+
+sha512sums="
+eb691e7c0fb87b954c0bae716a7ab8968db765c374b81fe321d9cea18676c9d335f2e70586cd82b32f92b90c3cd61482ab8cdf27c217cc8579a56db6be9fc051 verovio-3.10.0.tar.gz
+89f0d0f797910462ceb1043dee210e74fc00a6c309ef0637173a018224967def5eb1f66c30bfd7499040ccc2f67015d0ec2b37e9e8edc2a5c26c4865ba8c07df 0001-data-change-directory-to-usr-share-verovio.patch
+87dd5763a4cdf61dec179659173a1fb207f55f5428ae429f4a5bbe59a997097c5ebc7ca19389974138b446f9837c9a6114625e0869b224fbe6af13a2dfe63c87 fix-c-wrapper.patch
+22cf4be4ddd55231980d8cf4740f1152273800811fd78ecc2c82b3ea228b7406d4186a28780146111242c1dc53bfff0e2e264b624ae5871802242bd5ec86eae7 install-prefix.patch
+8438687d6b707c08e53fc87598ad74412b530139008bbbd7c4300f83104d2481ebe00923c1681d762445e9eb3c307b0c087c89ab49e2d60b22d7a31ce313063a commit-version.patch
+f62560a8a28d13d25e78a1b33c20a7e69662002c30767853e24ca6268775b3ff48792034803f39b5a9398a46f6ff9b18fbc09a5bef9d38539eeebeefaeb0cdc3 python-data-path.patch
+"
diff --git a/testing/verovio/commit-version.patch b/testing/verovio/commit-version.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea10433d2893e86f519c740a921c74591b24a12a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/verovio/commit-version.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+instead of getting aports git, give them the actual commit sha in prepare
+--- a/tools/get_git_commit.sh
++++ b/tools/get_git_commit.sh
+@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
+
+ cd ..
+ output="./include/vrv/git_commit.h"
+-COMMIT=$(git describe --abbrev=7 --always --dirty)
++COMMIT="@@COMMIT@@"
+
+ if [ -z "$COMMIT" ]; then
+ echo "Undefined git commit version"
diff --git a/testing/verovio/fix-c-wrapper.patch b/testing/verovio/fix-c-wrapper.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..803945a922938f68aff446e242cf44f2d39ad49b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/verovio/fix-c-wrapper.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+Patch-Source: https://github.com/rism-digital/verovio/pull/2911
+From a2b287c28fc120e682fceb71c8fd46cd617a2f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Zach DeCook <zachdecook@librem.one>
+Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 12:52:42 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] c wrapper: Remove default values as they aren't supported by
+ C
+
+See discussion at https://github.com/rism-digital/verovio/commit/c6cfec6b00eb025e8a502209f79cd30301ab2214#r75216422
+---
+ tools/c_wrapper.h | 8 ++++----
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/tools/c_wrapper.h b/tools/c_wrapper.h
+index 318ece6423..67dc65bd87 100644
+--- a/tools/c_wrapper.h
++++ b/tools/c_wrapper.h
+@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const char *vrvToolkit_convertHumdrumToHumdrum(void *tkPtr, const char *humdrumD
+ const char *vrvToolkit_convertHumdrumToMIDI(void *tkPtr, const char *humdrumData);
+ const char *vrvToolkit_convertMEIToHumdrum(void *tkPtr, const char *meiData);
+ const char *vrvToolkit_getLog(void *tkPtr);
+-const char *vrvToolkit_getMEI(void *tkPtr, const char *options = "");
++const char *vrvToolkit_getMEI(void *tkPtr, const char *options);
+ const char *vrvToolkit_getMIDIValuesForElement(void *tkPtr, const char *xmlId);
+ const char *vrvToolkit_getNotatedIdForElement(void *tkPtr, const char *xmlId);
+ const char *vrvToolkit_getOptions(void *tkPtr, bool default_values);
+@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ bool vrvToolkit_loadZipDataBase64(void *tkPtr, const char *data);
+ bool vrvToolkit_loadZipDataBuffer(void *tkPtr, const unsigned char *data, int length);
+ const char *vrvToolkit_renderToMIDI(void *tkPtr, const char *c_options);
+ const char *vrvToolkit_renderToPAE(void *tkPtr);
+-const char *vrvToolkit_renderToSVG(void *tkPtr, int page_no = 1, bool xmlDeclaration = false);
+-const char *vrvToolkit_renderToTimemap(void *tkPtr, const char *c_options = "");
+-void vrvToolkit_redoLayout(void *tkPtr, const char *c_options = "");
++const char *vrvToolkit_renderToSVG(void *tkPtr, int page_no, bool xmlDeclaration);
++const char *vrvToolkit_renderToTimemap(void *tkPtr, const char *c_options);
++void vrvToolkit_redoLayout(void *tkPtr, const char *c_options);
+ void vrvToolkit_redoPagePitchPosLayout(void *tkPtr);
+ const char *vrvToolkit_renderData(void *tkPtr, const char *data, const char *options);
+ void vrvToolkit_resetOptions(void *tkPtr);
diff --git a/testing/verovio/install-prefix.patch b/testing/verovio/install-prefix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..512708c116d8dd71f2c7db251d2b61414d59c0a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/verovio/install-prefix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+install to the correct binary dir
+--- a/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@
+
+ install(
+ TARGETS verovio
+- DESTINATION /usr/local/bin
++ DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}"
+ )
+ install(
+ DIRECTORY ../data/
diff --git a/testing/verovio/python-data-path.patch b/testing/verovio/python-data-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..17b3b5ca8440be62e948a323fc0b3ac468de5d95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/verovio/python-data-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+don't depend on py3-setuptools, and also import the system data dir
+--- a/bindings/python/__init__.py
++++ b/bindings/python/__init__.py
+@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
+-from pkg_resources import resource_filename
+-
+ from .verovio import *
+
+-verovio.setDefaultResourcePath(resource_filename('verovio', 'data'))
+\ No newline at end of file
++verovio.setDefaultResourcePath('/usr/share/verovio')