diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchzip/nix-prefetch-zip b/pkgs/build-support/fetchzip/nix-prefetch-zip
deleted file mode 100755
index d9a5f51057f..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchzip/nix-prefetch-zip
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,171 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh -e
-
-usage(){
-    echo  >&2 "syntax: nix-prefetch-zip [OPTIONS] [URL [EXPECTED-HASH]]
-
-Options:
-      --url         url    The url of the archive to fetch.
-      --name        name   The name to use for the store path (defaults to \`basename \$url\`).
-      --ext         ext    The file extension (.zip, .tar.gz, ...) to be REMOVED from name
-      --hash        hash   The hash of unpacked archive.
-      --hash-type   type   Use the specified cryptographic hash algorithm, which can be one of md5, sha1, and sha256.
-      --leave-root         Keep the root directory of the archive.
-      --help               Show this help text.
-"
-    exit 1
-}
-
-
-name=""
-ext=""
-argi=0
-argfun=""
-for arg; do
-  if test -z "$argfun"; then
-    case $arg in
-      --url) argfun=set_url;;
-      --name) argfun=set_name;;
-      --ext) argfun=set_ext;;
-      --hash) argfun=set_expHash;;
-      --hash-type) argfun=set_hashType;;
-      --leave-root) leaveRoot=true;;
-      --help) usage;;
-      *) argi=$(($argi + 1))
-         case $argi in
-           1) url=$arg;;
-           2) rev=$arg;;
-           3) expHash=$arg;;
-           *) echo "Unexpected argument: $arg" >&2
-              usage
-              ;;
-         esac
-         ;;
-    esac
-  else
-    case $argfun in
-      set_*)
-        var=$(echo $argfun | sed 's,^set_,,')
-        eval "$var=\$arg"
-        ;;
-    esac
-    argfun=""
-  fi
-done
-
-if [ -z "$url" ]; then
-  echo "Error: No --url flag given" >&2
-  usage
-fi
-
-if [ -z "$name" ]; then
-  name=$(basename "$url")
-fi
-
-if test -z "$hashType"; then
-  hashType=sha256
-fi
-
-hashFormat="--base32"
-
-tmp=$(mktemp -d 2>/dev/null || mktemp -d -t "$$")
-trap "rm -rf '$tmp'" EXIT
-
-dirname=$(basename -s "$ext" "$name")
-
-unpackDirTmp=$tmp/unpacked-tmp/$dirname
-mkdir -p $unpackDirTmp
-
-unpackDir=$tmp/unpacked/$dirname
-mkdir -p $unpackDir
-
-downloadedFile=$tmp/$(basename "$url")
-
-unpackFile() {
-  local curSrc="$1"
-
-  case "$curSrc" in
-    *.tar.xz | *.tar.lzma)
-      # Don't rely on tar knowing about .xz.
-      xz -d < $curSrc | tar xf -
-      ;;
-    *.tar | *.tar.* | *.tgz | *.tbz2)
-      # GNU tar can automatically select the decompression method
-      # (info "(tar) gzip").
-      tar xf $curSrc
-      ;;
-    *.zip)
-      unzip -qq $curSrc
-      ;;
-    *)
-      echo "source archive $curSrc has unknown type" >&2
-      exit 1
-      ;;
-  esac
-}
-
-# If the hash was given, a file with that hash may already be in the
-# store.
-if test -n "$expHash"; then
-  finalPath=$(nix-store --print-fixed-path --recursive "$hashType" "$expHash" "$name")
-  if ! nix-store --check-validity "$finalPath" 2> /dev/null; then
-    finalPath=
-  fi
-  hash=$expHash
-fi
-
-# If we don't know the hash or a path with that hash doesn't exist,
-# download the file and add it to the store.
-if test -z "$finalPath"; then
-  curl="curl \
-   --location --max-redirs 20 \
-   --disable-epsv \
-   --insecure"
-
-  if ! $curl --fail "$url" --output "$downloadedFile"; then
-    echo "error: could not download $url" >&2
-    exit 1
-  fi
-
-  if [ -z "$leaveRoot" ]; then
-    shopt -s dotglob
-
-    cd "$unpackDirTmp"
-    unpackFile "$downloadedFile"
-
-    if [ $(ls "$unpackDirTmp" | wc -l) != 1 ]; then
-      echo "error: zip file must contain a single file or directory."
-      exit 1
-    fi
-
-    fn=$(cd "$unpackDirTmp" && echo *)
-
-    if [ -f "$unpackDirTmp/$fn" ]; then
-      mv "$unpackDirTmp/$fn" "$unpackDir"
-    else
-      mv "$unpackDirTmp/$fn/"* "$unpackDir/"
-    fi
-  else
-    cd $unpackDir
-    unpackFile "$downloadedFile"
-  fi
-
-  # Compute the hash.
-  hash=$(nix-hash --type $hashType $hashFormat $unpackDir)
-  if ! test -n "$QUIET"; then echo "hash is $hash" >&2; fi
-
-  # Add the downloaded file to the Nix store.
-  finalPath=$(nix-store --add-fixed --recursive "$hashType" $unpackDir)
-
-  if test -n "$expHash" -a "$expHash" != "$hash"; then
-    echo "hash mismatch for URL \`$url'"
-    exit 1
-  fi
-fi
-
-if ! test -n "$QUIET"; then echo "path is $finalPath" >&2; fi
-
-echo $hash
-
-if test -n "$PRINT_PATH"; then
-  echo $finalPath
-fi
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-prefetch-scripts/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-prefetch-scripts/default.nix
index 6c5cb467a8f..f37940c65c1 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-prefetch-scripts/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix-prefetch-scripts/default.nix
@@ -37,12 +37,11 @@ in rec {
   nix-prefetch-git = mkPrefetchScript "git" ../../../build-support/fetchgit/nix-prefetch-git [git coreutils];
   nix-prefetch-hg  = mkPrefetchScript "hg"  ../../../build-support/fetchhg/nix-prefetch-hg   [mercurial];
   nix-prefetch-svn = mkPrefetchScript "svn" ../../../build-support/fetchsvn/nix-prefetch-svn [subversion.out];
-  nix-prefetch-zip = mkPrefetchScript "zip" ../../../build-support/fetchzip/nix-prefetch-zip [unzip curl.bin];
 
   nix-prefetch-scripts = buildEnv {
     name = "nix-prefetch-scripts";
 
-    paths = [ nix-prefetch-bzr nix-prefetch-cvs nix-prefetch-git nix-prefetch-hg nix-prefetch-svn nix-prefetch-zip ];
+    paths = [ nix-prefetch-bzr nix-prefetch-cvs nix-prefetch-git nix-prefetch-hg nix-prefetch-svn ];
 
     meta = with stdenv.lib; {
       description = "Collection of all the nix-prefetch-* scripts which may be used to obtain source hashes";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 353283a409b..fca4257b371 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -17655,7 +17655,6 @@ with pkgs;
     nix-prefetch-git
     nix-prefetch-hg
     nix-prefetch-svn
-    nix-prefetch-zip
     nix-prefetch-scripts;
 
   nix-template-rpm = callPackage ../build-support/templaterpm { inherit (pythonPackages) python toposort; };