diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.18.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.19.bb
similarity index 68%
rename from meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.18.bb
rename to meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.19.bb
index 84fc9e2f18..6b24076d79 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.18.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.19.bb
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ DESCRIPTION = "xdg-user-dirs is a tool to help manage user directories like the
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 
-SRC_URI = "http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ec6f06d7495cdba37a732039f9b5e1578bcb296576fde0da40edb2f52220df3c"
+SRC_URI = "http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "e92deb929c10d4b29329397af8a2585101247f7e6177ac6f1d28e82130ed8c19"
 
-inherit autotools gettext
+inherit autotools gettext pkgconfig
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-documentation"
 
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ CONFFILES:${PN} += " \
     ${sysconfdir}/xdg/user-dirs.conf \
     ${sysconfdir}/xdg/user-dirs.defaults \
 "
+
+FILES:${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/user/xdg-user-dirs.service"