diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/atool/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/atool/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d376f75a552
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/archivers/atool/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, perl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "atool-0.39";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/atool/atool-0.39.0.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "aaf60095884abb872e25f8e919a8a63d0dabaeca46faeba87d12812d6efc703b";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ perl ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.nongnu.org/atool;
+    description = "Archive command line helper";
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 743acccefb0..a5c331aa5a8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -492,6 +492,8 @@ let
     inherit (haskellPackages) pandoc;
   };
 
+  atool = callPackage ../tools/archivers/atool { };
+
   bzip2 = callPackage ../tools/compression/bzip2 { };
 
   cabextract = callPackage ../tools/archivers/cabextract { };