diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/caneda/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/caneda/default.nix
index 2d6b12a5bb0..8f81a03044b 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/caneda/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/caneda/default.nix
@@ -1,37 +1,20 @@
-{stdenv, fetchgit, qt4, cmake, libxml2, libxslt}:
-
-let
-
-  srcComponents = fetchgit {
-    url = git://caneda.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/caneda/components;
-    rev = "34cd36b620e0dfc57ba2d2b6168734ea9a2cfa9a";
-    sha256 = "840f07921eecbf10e38e44e5c61c716295a16c98fbb75016d9a44e7dfee40e59";
-  };
-
-in
+{stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, qtbase, qttools, qtsvg, qwt }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "caneda-git-2012-02-16";
+  name = "caneda-${version}";
+  version = "0.3.1";
 
-  src = fetchgit {
-    url = git://caneda.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/caneda/caneda;
-    rev = "fff9e2f7988fe5d062548cafeda1e5cd660769d1";
-    sha256 = "dfbcac97f5a1b41ad9a63392394f37fb294cbf78c576673c9bc4a5370957b2c8";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "Caneda";
+    repo = "Caneda";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "0hx8qid50j9xvg2kpbpqmbdyakgyjn6m373m1cvhp70v2gp1v8l2";
   };
 
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+  buildInputs = [ qtbase qttools qtsvg qwt ];
 
-  buildInputs = [ cmake qt4 libxml2 libxslt ];
-
-  patches = [
-    ./gcc6.patch
-  ];
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    mkdir $out/share/caneda/components
-    cp -R ${srcComponents}/* $out/share/caneda/components
-    chmod u+w -R $out/share/caneda/components
-  '';
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   meta = {
     description = "Open source EDA software focused on easy of use and portability";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ab28e79c235..e9ff87d5e60 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -18618,7 +18618,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   eagle = callPackage ../applications/science/electronics/eagle { };
 
-  caneda = callPackage ../applications/science/electronics/caneda { };
+  caneda = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/science/electronics/caneda { };
 
   geda = callPackage ../applications/science/electronics/geda {
     guile = guile_2_0;