diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/ihaskell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/ihaskell/default.nix
index f6505384128..a9b1347517f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/ihaskell/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/ihaskell/default.nix
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   postInstall = ''
     patchShebangs .
   '';
+  jailbreak = true;
   meta = with self.stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = "http://gibiansky.github.io/IHaskell/";
     description = "A Haskell backend kernel for the IPython project";