diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LAMMPS/LAMMPS-29Aug2024_install-deepmd-plugin.patch b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LAMMPS/LAMMPS-29Aug2024_install-deepmd-plugin.patch
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+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LAMMPS/LAMMPS-29Aug2024_install-deepmd-plugin.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Add include line for the DeePMD-kit plugin
+See DeepMD documentation: https://docs.deepmodeling.com/projects/deepmd/en/stable/install/install-lammps.html#with-cmake
+Author: Lara Peeters (UGent)
+diff -ruN lammps-stable_29Aug2024.orig/cmake/CMakeLists.txt lammps-stable_29Aug2024/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
+--- lammps-stable_29Aug2024.orig/cmake/CMakeLists.txt	2024-08-30 02:47:52.000000000 +0200
++++ lammps-stable_29Aug2024/cmake/CMakeLists.txt	2025-06-20 10:17:41.184817337 +0200
+@@ -1091,3 +1091,5 @@
+     message(STATUS "Collecting code coverage data")
+   endif()
+ endif()
++
++include(${deepmd_source_dir}/source/lmp/builtin.cmake)
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LAMMPS/LAMMPS-29Aug2024_update2-foss-2023a-kokkos-with-deepmd-plugin.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LAMMPS/LAMMPS-29Aug2024_update2-foss-2023a-kokkos-with-deepmd-plugin.eb
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+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LAMMPS/LAMMPS-29Aug2024_update2-foss-2023a-kokkos-with-deepmd-plugin.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+name = 'LAMMPS'
+version = '29Aug2024_update2'
+versionsuffix = '-kokkos' + "-with-deepmd-plugin"
+local_DeePMDkit_version = '3.0.1'
+
+homepage = 'https://www.lammps.org'
+description = """LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym
+for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. LAMMPS has
+potentials for solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and soft matter
+(biomolecules, polymers) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be
+used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at
+the atomic, meso, or continuum scale. LAMMPS runs on single processors or in
+parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the
+simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new
+functionality.
+"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2023a'}
+toolchainopts = {'openmp': True, 'usempi': True}
+
+# 'https://github.com/lammps/lammps/archive/'
+source_urls = [
+    GITHUB_LOWER_SOURCE,
+    'https://github.com/deepmodeling/deepmd-kit/archive/refs/tags/',
+]
+sources = [
+    'stable_%(version)s.tar.gz',
+    {
+        'download_filename': 'v%s.tar.gz' % local_DeePMDkit_version,
+        'filename': 'deepmd-v%s.tar.gz' % local_DeePMDkit_version,
+    },
+]
+patches = [
+    'LAMMPS-2Aug2023_install_lammps_python_package_in_eb_software_module.patch',
+    'LAMMPS-29Aug2024_install-deepmd-plugin.patch',
+]
+checksums = [
+    {'stable_29Aug2024_update2.tar.gz': 'f8ca3f021a819ced8658055f7750e235c51b4937ddb621cf1bd7bee08e0b6266'},
+    {'deepmd-v3.0.1.tar.gz': 'e842edbc2714bc948ce708c411e5fed751e67c88d5c493c2978f11c849027dca'},
+    {'LAMMPS-2Aug2023_install_lammps_python_package_in_eb_software_module.patch':
+     '723c944b62b9d28427d25e80a7a67049631702d344df49268a6846aa0cd0fe04'},
+    {'LAMMPS-29Aug2024_install-deepmd-plugin.patch':
+     'e601be73e131ed0740553b6ceff066eca0a7a474aad3d1b9e8dd4409ac6497df'},
+]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('CMake', '3.26.3'),
+    ('pkgconf', '1.9.5'),
+    ('archspec', '0.2.5'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '3.11.3'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.39'),
+    ('libjpeg-turbo', '2.1.5.1'),
+    ('netCDF', '4.9.2'),
+    ('GSL', '2.7'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.13'),
+    ('gzip', '1.12'),
+    ('cURL', '8.0.1'),
+    ('HDF5', '1.14.0'),
+    ('PCRE', '8.45'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.11.4'),
+    ('FFmpeg', '6.0'),
+    ('Voro++', '0.4.6'),
+    ('kim-api', '2.3.0'),
+    ('Eigen', '3.4.0'),
+    ('PLUMED', '2.9.0'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.07'),
+    # VTK package is auto-disabled if this dep is not available
+    ('VTK', '9.3.0'),
+    # We use a custom build of MDI
+    ('MDI', '1.4.26'),
+    ('DeePMD-kit', local_DeePMDkit_version)
+]
+if ARCH == 'x86_64':
+    # TBB and ScaFaCos are an optional dependency when building on Intel arch
+    dependencies += [
+        ('tbb', '2021.11.0'),
+        ('ScaFaCoS', '1.0.4'),
+    ]
+
+# To use additional custom configuration options, use the 'configopts' easyconfig parameter
+# See docs and lammps easyblock for more information.
+# https://github.com/lammps/lammps/blob/master/cmake/README.md#lammps-configuration-options
+
+# OpenMP-Kokkos build is default in the current easyblock. One can switch to serial backend of Kokkos,
+# which is claimed to be faster in pure MPI calculations
+# configopts  = "-DKokkos_ENABLE_SERIAL=yes "
+
+
+# packages auto-enabled by easyblock
+# 'GPU'    - if cuda package is present and kokkos is disabled
+# 'KOKKOS' - if kokkos is enabled (by default)
+# 'INTEL'  - if builing on Intel CPU
+# 'OPENMP' - if OpenMP swithed on in 'toolchainopts'
+
+# include the following extra packages into the build
+general_packages = [
+    'AMOEBA',
+    'ASPHERE',
+    'ATC',
+    'AWPMD',
+    'BOCS',
+    'BODY',
+    'BPM',
+    'BROWNIAN',
+    'CG-DNA',
+    'CG-SPICA',
+    'CLASS2',
+    'COLLOID',
+    'COLVARS',
+    'COMPRESS',
+    'CORESHELL',
+    'DIELECTRIC',
+    'DIFFRACTION',
+    'DIPOLE',
+    'DPD-BASIC',
+    'DPD-MESO',
+    'DPD-REACT',
+    'DPD-SMOOTH',
+    'DRUDE',
+    'EFF',
+    'ELECTRODE',
+    'EXTRA-COMPUTE',
+    'EXTRA-DUMP',
+    'EXTRA-FIX',
+    'EXTRA-MOLECULE',
+    'EXTRA-PAIR',
+    'FEP',
+    'GRANULAR',
+    'H5MD',
+    'INTERLAYER',
+    'KIM',
+    'KSPACE',
+    'LATBOLTZ',
+    'LEPTON',
+    'MACHDYN',
+    'MANIFOLD',
+    'MANYBODY',
+    'MC',
+    'MDI',
+    'MEAM',
+    'MGPT',
+    'MISC',
+    'ML-IAP',
+    'ML-PACE',
+    'ML-POD',
+    'ML-RANN',
+    'ML-SNAP',
+    'MOFFF',
+    'MOLECULE',
+    'MOLFILE',
+    'MPIIO',
+    'NETCDF',
+    'OPT',
+    'ORIENT',
+    'PERI',
+    'PHONON',
+    'PLUGIN',
+    'PLUMED',
+    'POEMS',
+    'PTM',
+    'PYTHON',
+    'QEQ',
+    'QTB',
+    'REACTION',
+    'REAXFF',
+    'REPLICA',
+    'RIGID',
+    'SCAFACOS',
+    'SHOCK',
+    'SMTBQ',
+    'SPH',
+    'SPIN',
+    'SRD',
+    'TALLY',
+    'UEF',
+    'VORONOI',
+    'VTK',
+    'YAFF',
+]
+
+# Excluded packages due to requiring additional (non-trivial) deps
+# - ADIOS
+# - LATTE
+# - MESONT (requires very large files downloaded during build)
+# - ML-HDNNP (requires N2P2)
+# - ML-QUIP
+# - MSCG
+# - QMMM (setup seems complex)
+
+configopts = '-Ddeepmd_source_dir=%%(builddir)s/deepmd-kit-%s' % local_DeePMDkit_version
+
+moduleclass = 'chem'