diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/e/EasyBuild/EasyBuild-4.8.2.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/e/EasyBuild/EasyBuild-4.8.2.eb
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+easyblock = 'EB_EasyBuildMeta'
+
+name = 'EasyBuild'
+version = '4.8.2'
+
+homepage = 'https://easybuilders.github.io/easybuild'
+description = """EasyBuild is a software build and installation framework
+ written in Python that allows you to install software in a structured,
+ repeatable and robust way."""
+
+toolchain = SYSTEM
+
+source_urls = [
+    # easybuild-framework
+    'https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e5/40/17e4ddbe7aa160e67219a90c7c4f67baa4b0efc3a6c21ab0e2c858af8f4e/',
+    # easybuild-easyblocks
+    'https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/85/07/e59231a6f4a90f6bd7c24c9c3b923469024ab0072af95dac9409624796d1/',
+    # easybuild-easyconfigs
+    'https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/4b/1e/27f7d6785b35978ebb70a518bb1ea699ace8d05395c902a6d518de8590bb/',
+]
+sources = [
+    'easybuild-framework-%(version)s.tar.gz',
+    'easybuild-easyblocks-%(version)s.tar.gz',
+    'easybuild-easyconfigs-%(version)s.tar.gz',
+]
+checksums = [
+    {'easybuild-framework-4.8.2.tar.gz': '87852289d099aed18e6778c556d8aed173ab1ff711c20e7d9ad32803336b3610'},
+    {'easybuild-easyblocks-4.8.2.tar.gz': '796ba8268e2832c6cb78c681401ce401f4d3a6471e1407a3987e76e6f42b3fd7'},
+    {'easybuild-easyconfigs-4.8.2.tar.gz': 'c191b09f68cc3a0be33d248edfb892a143424af119f6ae6fd076c7880343cd63'},
+]
+
+# order matters a lot, to avoid having dependencies auto-resolved (--no-deps easy_install option doesn't work?)
+# EasyBuild is a (set of) Python packages, so it depends on Python
+# usually, we want to use the system Python, so no actual Python dependency is listed
+allow_system_deps = [('Python', SYS_PYTHON_VERSION)]
+
+local_pyshortver = '.'.join(SYS_PYTHON_VERSION.split('.')[:2])
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/eb'],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%s/site-packages' % local_pyshortver],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'tools'