diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/almonds/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/almonds/default.nix
index fb76699b0c83..96613f4e38a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/math/almonds/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/almonds/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-{ stdenv, buildPythonApplication, fetchFromGitHub, ncurses, pillow, pytest }:
+{ stdenv, python3, fetchFromGitHub, ncurses }:
 
-let
+with python3.pkgs; buildPythonApplication rec {
+  pname = "almonds";
   version = "1.25b";
-in
 
-buildPythonApplication {
-  name = "almonds-${version}";
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "Tenchi2xh";
     repo = "Almonds";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index cfebcc1322cb..364278687a75 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -20466,7 +20466,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   ### SCIENCE/MATH
 
-  almonds = pythonPackages.callPackage ../applications/science/math/almonds { };
+  almonds = callPackage ../applications/science/math/almonds { };
 
   arpack = callPackage ../development/libraries/science/math/arpack { };