diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/misc/ihaskell.nix b/nixos/modules/services/misc/ihaskell.nix
index b857045bb7d0..7f7f981de498 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/misc/ihaskell.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/misc/ihaskell.nix
@@ -68,9 +68,8 @@ in
       after = [ "network.target" ];
       serviceConfig = {
         User = config.users.extraUsers.ihaskell.name;
-        Group = config.users.extraUsers.ihaskell.name;
-        Restart = "always";
-        ExecStart = "${ihaskell}/bin/IHaskell notebook";
+        Group = config.users.extraGroups.ihaskell.name;
+        ExecStart = "${pkgs.stdenv.shell} -c \"cd $HOME;${ihaskell}/bin/ihaskell-notebook\"";
       };
     };
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/ihaskell/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/ihaskell/wrapper.nix
index 4ce78c31fe2f..035ad738a824 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/ihaskell/wrapper.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/ihaskell/wrapper.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, buildEnv, ghcWithPackages, makeWrapper, ihaskell, ipython, packages }:
+{ stdenv, writeScriptBin, buildEnv, ghcWithPackages, ihaskell, ipython, packages }:
 let
   ihaskellEnv = ghcWithPackages (self: [
     self.ihaskell
@@ -6,30 +6,18 @@ let
     self.ihaskell-diagrams
     self.ihaskell-display
   ] ++ packages self);
+  ihaskellSh = writeScriptBin "ihaskell-notebook" ''
+    #!/bin/sh
+    export GHC_PACKAGE_PATH="$(echo ${ihaskellEnv}/lib/*/package.conf.d| tr ' ' ':'):$GHC_PACKAGE_PATH"
+    export PATH="${ihaskell}/bin:${ihaskellEnv}/bin:${ipython}/bin"
+    ${ihaskell}/bin/ihaskell install -l $(${ihaskellEnv}/bin/ghc --print-libdir) && ${ipython}/bin/ipython notebook --kernel=haskell
+  '';
   profile = "${ihaskell.pname}-${ihaskell.version}/profile/profile.tar";
-  drv = buildEnv {
-    name = "ihaskell-with-packages";
-    paths = [ ihaskellEnv ipython ];
-    postBuild = ''
-    tar xf ${ihaskell.src} ${profile}
-    mkdir -p $out/share/`dirname ${profile}`
-    mkdir profile
-    cd profile
-    tar xf ../${profile}
-    for cfg in ipython_*config.py;do
-      sed -i -e "1iexe = '${ihaskell}/bin/IHaskell'" $cfg
-    done
-    tar cf $out/share/${profile} .
-    wrapProgram "$out/bin/IHaskell" \
-      --prefix PATH : "${ihaskellEnv}/bin:${ipython}/bin" \
-      --set PROFILE_DIR "\$HOME/.ipython/profile_haskell" \
-      --set PROFILE_TAR "$out/share/${profile}" \
-      --set PROFILE_INIT "\$([ ! -d \$PROFILE_DIR ] \
-          && mkdir -p \$PROFILE_DIR \
-          && tar xf \$PROFILE_TAR -C \$PROFILE_DIR \
-          ; [ -d \$PROFILE_DIR ] && for cfg in \$PROFILE_DIR/ipython_*config.py;do \
-            sed -i -e '/.*exe.*IHaskell.*/d' \$cfg; sed -i -e \"1iexe = '${ihaskell}/bin/IHaskell'\" \$cfg;done )" \
-      --set GHC_PACKAGE_PATH "\$(echo $out/lib/*/package.conf.d| tr ' ' ':'):" \
-    '';
-  };
-in stdenv.lib.overrideDerivation drv (x : { buildInputs = x.buildInputs ++ [ makeWrapper ]; })
\ No newline at end of file
+in
+buildEnv {
+  name = "ihaskell-with-packages";
+  paths = [ ihaskellEnv ipython ];
+  postBuild = ''
+    ln -s ${ihaskellSh}/bin/ihaskell-notebook $out/bin/.
+  '';
+}