diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5ac2ad6b9ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, libX11, ncurses}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "st-0.2.1";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://hg.suckless.org/st/archive/0.2.1.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "15yqyys69ifjc4vrzvamrg7x0pwa60mnjpi0kap4y9ykhds83xab";
+  };
+  
+  buildInputs = [ libX11 ncurses ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    TERMINFO=$out/share/terminfo make install PREFIX=$out
+  '';
+    
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://st.suckless.org/;
+    license = "MIT";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [viric];
+    platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e6ea71414cb..5536d6fcabb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7495,6 +7495,8 @@ let
     usePulseAudio = getConfig [ "pulseaudio" ] false; # disabled by default (the 100% cpu bug)
   };
 
+  st = callPackage ../applications/misc/st { };
+
   dropbox = callPackage ../applications/networking/dropbox { };
 
   slim = callPackage ../applications/display-managers/slim { };