diff --git a/pkgs/development/misc/man-pages/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/misc/man-pages/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 857fc6c17c0..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/misc/man-pages/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-tar zxf $src
-cd man-pages-*
-
-sed -e "s#^MANDIR=.*#MANDIR=$out/share/man#" Makefile > Makefile.tmp
-mv Makefile.tmp Makefile
-
-make install
diff --git a/pkgs/development/misc/man-pages/default.nix b/pkgs/development/misc/man-pages/default.nix
index efc55473b81..6a553b86e29 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/misc/man-pages/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/misc/man-pages/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "man-pages-2.39";
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  name = "man-pages-2.43";
+  
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/man-pages-2.39.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "770f4e5b1a1298ed054ceae7cdbbbba4";
+    url = ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/man-pages-2.43.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "01dibzkssaq0ssq61adhmri29ws9jbhbn2yxmjvb3gg8q7gjah9w";
   };
+
+  preBuild = "
+    makeFlagsArray=(MANDIR=$out/share/man)
+  ";
 }