diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/tex4ht/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/tex4ht/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index dc2d3e052e8a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/tex4ht/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, tetex, unzip}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "tex4ht-1.0.2009_06_11_1038";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/tex4ht.zip";
-    sha256 = "15gj18ihds6530af42clpa4zskak5kah9wzs2hd19a9ymwjsccd6";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ tetex unzip ];
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
-
-  buildPhase = ''
-    cd src
-    for f in tex4ht t4ht htcmd ; do
-      # -DENVFILE="$out/share/texmf-nix/tex4ht/base/unix/tex4ht.env"
-      ''${CC:-gcc} -o $f $f.c -I${tetex}/include -L${tetex}/lib  -DHAVE_DIRENT_H -DHAVE_DIRENT_H -DKPATHSEA -lkpathsea
-    done
-    cd -
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin
-    for f in src/tex4ht src/t4ht src/htcmd "bin/unix/"*; do
-      mv $f $out/bin/
-    done
-    mv texmf $out/texmf-dist
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://tug.org/tex4ht/;
-    description = "A system to convert (La)TeX documents to HTML and various other formats";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lppl12;
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
-    broken = true; # use the one from texlive.tex4ht
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c025469152b3..b85a217d3603 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -20481,8 +20481,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   tewi-font = callPackage ../data/fonts/tewi  {};
 
-  tex4ht = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/tex/tex4ht { tetex = ""; };
-
   texFunctions = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/tex/nix pkgs;
 
   # TeX Live; see http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-language-texlive