diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/slimrat/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/slimrat/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c26dc27b3f0..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/slimrat/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, perlPackages, makeWrapper}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "slimrat-1.0";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/slimrat/slimrat-1.0.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "139b71d45k4b1y47iq62a9732cnaqqbh8s4knkrgq2hx0jxpsk5a";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ] ++ (with perlPackages; [ perl WWWMechanize LWP ]);
-
-  patchPhase = ''
-    sed -e 's,#!.*,#!${perlPackages.perl}/bin/perl,' -i src/{slimrat,slimrat-gui}
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/share/slimrat $out/bin
-    cp -R src/* $out/share/slimrat
-    # slimrat-gui does not work (it needs the Gtk2 perl package)
-    for i in slimrat; do
-      makeWrapper $out/share/slimrat/$i $out/bin/$i \
-        --prefix PERL5LIB : $PERL5LIB
-    done
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://code.google.com/archive/p/slimrat/";
-    description = "Linux Rapidshare downloader";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
-    broken = true; # officially abandonned upstream
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f2d9852bcb61..a3cee11f9c86 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6617,8 +6617,6 @@ in
 
   sleepyhead = callPackage ../applications/misc/sleepyhead {};
 
-  slimrat = callPackage ../tools/networking/slimrat { };
-
   slirp4netns = callPackage ../tools/networking/slirp4netns/default.nix { };
 
   slsnif = callPackage ../tools/misc/slsnif { };