diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/transmission-remote-cli/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/transmission-remote-cli/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c6e35752a0..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/transmission-remote-cli/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pythonPackages }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "transmission-remote-cli";
-  version = "1.7.1";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/fagga/transmission-remote-cli/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1y0hkpcjf6jw9xig8yf484hbhy63nip0pkchx401yxj81m25l4z9";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = with pythonPackages; [ python wrapPython ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    install -D transmission-remote-cli $out/bin/transmission-remote-cli
-    install -D transmission-remote-cli.1 $out/share/man/man1/transmission-remote-cli.1
-    wrapPythonPrograms
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Curses interface for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/fagga/transmission-remote-cli";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 9ae210ea051..130191d00b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -612,6 +612,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   transcribe = throw "transcribe has been removed after being marked a broken for over a year"; # added 2020-09-16
   transmission_gtk = transmission-gtk; # added 2018-01-06
   transmission_remote_gtk = transmission-remote-gtk; # added 2018-01-06
+  transmission-remote-cli = "transmission-remote-cli has been removed, as the upstream project has been abandoned. Please use tremc instead"; # added 2020-10-14
   transporter = throw "transporter has been removed. It was archived upstream, so it's considered abandoned.";
   trilium = throw "trilium has been removed. Please use trilium-desktop instead."; # added 2020-04-29
   truecrypt = veracrypt; # added 2018-10-24
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f37afc26388..20bef0fc22d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -23790,7 +23790,6 @@ in
   transmission-gtk = transmission.override { enableGTK3 = true; };
   transmission-qt = transmission.override { enableQt = true; };
 
-  transmission-remote-cli = callPackage ../applications/networking/p2p/transmission-remote-cli {};
   transmission-remote-gtk = callPackage ../applications/networking/p2p/transmission-remote-gtk {};
 
   transgui = callPackage ../applications/networking/p2p/transgui { };