diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/scilab/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/scilab/default.nix
index 4e30814ff7d..bb52b430f8c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/math/scilab/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/scilab/default.nix
@@ -67,5 +67,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     description = "Scientific software package for numerical computations (Matlab lookalike)";
     # see http://www.scilab.org/legal
     license = "SciLab";
+    broken = true;
   };
 }