diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtirpc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtirpc/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d9678f646b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtirpc/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+let
+  version = "0.2.2";
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "libtirpc-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/libtirpc/libtirpc-${version}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "f05eb17c85d62423858b8f74512cfe66a9ae1cedf93f03c2a0a32e04f0a33705";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/libtirpc/";
+    description = "a port of Suns Transport-Independent RPC library to Linux";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
+
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.simons ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b8c5237f049..797fcb1dde3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -907,6 +907,8 @@ let
 
   lftp = callPackage ../tools/networking/lftp { };
 
+  libtirpc = callPackage ../development/libraries/libtirpc { };
+
   libtorrent = callPackage ../tools/networking/p2p/libtorrent { };
 
   logrotate = callPackage ../tools/system/logrotate { };