diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/0.5.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/0.5.nix
index 6e3790917039..cfe3d59aba3a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/0.5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/julia/0.5.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, fetchurl
+{ stdenv, fetchgit, fetchurl, fetchzip
 # build tools
 , gfortran, m4, makeWrapper, patchelf, perl, which, python2
 , runCommand
@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "julia";
-  version = "0.5.1";
+  version = "0.5.2";
   name = "${pname}-${version}";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
+  src = fetchzip {
     url = "https://github.com/JuliaLang/${pname}/releases/download/v${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1a9m7hzzrwk71gvwwrd1p45s64yid61i41n95gm5pzbry6p9fpl0";
+    sha256 = "1616f53dj7xc0g2iys8qfbzal6dx55nswnws5g5r44dlbf4hcl0h";
   };
   prePatch = ''
     mkdir deps/srccache
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   preBuild = ''
     sed -e '/^install:/s@[^ ]*/doc/[^ ]*@@' -i Makefile
     sed -e '/[$](DESTDIR)[$](docdir)/d' -i Makefile
+    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
   '';
 
   postInstall = ''