diff --git a/external/epm/UnpackedTarball_epm.mk b/external/epm/UnpackedTarball_epm.mk
index c064a5bacc1e..91d9fbd2b29a 100644
--- a/external/epm/UnpackedTarball_epm.mk
+++ b/external/epm/UnpackedTarball_epm.mk
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ $(eval $(call gb_UnpackedTarball_set_tarball,epm,$(EPM_TARBALL),,epm))
 $(eval $(call gb_UnpackedTarball_add_patches,epm,\
 	external/epm/epm-3.7.patch \
 	external/epm/asan.patch.0 \
+	external/epm/ppc64el.patch.0 \
 ))
 
 # vim: set noet sw=4 ts=4:
diff --git a/external/epm/ppc64el.patch.0 b/external/epm/ppc64el.patch.0
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2b9416e8d215
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/epm/ppc64el.patch.0
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- deb.c.orig	2022-08-01 14:50:38.593375838 +0200
++++ deb.c	2022-08-01 14:58:08.000000000 +0200
+@@ -163,6 +163,8 @@
+ #endif
+   else if (!strcmp(platform->machine, "ppc"))
+     fputs("Architecture: powerpc\n", fp);
++  else if (!strcmp(platform->machine, "ppc64le"))
++    fputs("Architecture: ppc64el\n", fp);
+   else
+     fprintf(fp, "Architecture: %s\n", platform->machine);
+