diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/zssh/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/zssh/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..16c0034e46f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/zssh/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, readline, deepin-terminal }:
+
+let
+  version = "1.5c";
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "zssh-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/zssh/${name}.tgz";
+    sha256 = "06z73iq59lz8ibjrgs7d3xl39vh9yld1988yx8khssch4pw41s52";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ readline ];
+
+  patches = [
+    # Cargo-culted from Arch, returns “out of pty's” without it
+    (fetchurl {
+      name = "fix_use_ptmx_on_arch.patch";
+      url = https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/plain/trunk/fix_use_ptmx_on_arch.patch?h=packages/zssh&id=0a7c92543f9309856d02e31196f06d7c3eaa8b67;
+      sha256 = "12daw9wpy58ql882zww945wk9cg2adwp8qsr5rvazx0xq0qawgbr";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  patchFlags = [ "-p0" ];
+
+  # The makefile does not create the directories
+  postBuild = ''
+    install -dm755 "$out"/{bin,man/man1}
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "SSH and Telnet client with ZMODEM file transfer capability";
+    homepage = http://zssh.sourceforge.net/;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = deepin-terminal.meta.maintainers; # required by deepin-terminal
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8930006a760..7be77df0b99 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5389,6 +5389,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   zsh-command-time = callPackage ../shells/zsh-command-time { };
 
+  zssh = callPackage ../tools/networking/zssh { };
+
   zstd = callPackage ../tools/compression/zstd { };
   zstdmt = callPackage ../tools/compression/zstdmt { };