diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/muparser/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/muparser/default.nix
index 009b6c9ddfe4..3cc1c6ce43c5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/muparser/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/muparser/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, unzip}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-	name = "muparser-1.34";
+	name = "muparser-2.2.2";
 	src = fetchurl {
-		url = mirror://sourceforge/muparser/muparser_v134.tar.gz;
-		sha256 = "0xi27xjj7bwwf5nw3n2lynpr76al3vp204zwh71wkfnhwbzksg8f";
+		url = mirror://sourceforge/muparser/muparser_v2_2_2.zip;
+		sha256 = "0pncvjzzbwcadgpwnq5r7sl9v5r2y9gjgfnlw0mrs9wj206dbhx9";
 	};
 
+  buildInputs = [ unzip ];
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://muparser.sourceforge.net;
     description = "An extensible high performance math expression parser library written in C++";