diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/psmisc/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/psmisc/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..64985a8638c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/psmisc/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "psmisc-22.6";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = mirror://sourceforge/psmisc/psmisc-22.6.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0qlx4rdcj3igk67gzmdbyy6f54h4c5ya17gw0pkxdcwlgj4q2g51";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [ncurses];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://psmisc.sourceforge.net/;
+    description = "A set of small useful utilities that use the proc filesystem (such as fuser, killall and pstree)";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 83bbf550e49..1b38967d689 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -664,6 +664,10 @@ rec {
     inherit (xlibs) libX11;
   };
 
+  psmisc = import ../tools/misc/psmisc {
+    inherit stdenv fetchurl ncurses;
+  };
+
   pwgen = import ../tools/security/pwgen {
     inherit stdenv fetchurl;
   };