diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libpar2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libpar2/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..85e8bad8906
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libpar2/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libsigcxx }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "libpar2-0.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/parchive/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "024r37wi01d1pfkk17l5lk0ci0cc0xhy5z050hzf3cbk1y2bykq7";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libsigcxx ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://parchive.sourceforge.net/;
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+    description = "A library for using Parchives (parity archive volume sets)";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/nzbget/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/nzbget/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8a2e8eeb72f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/nzbget/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libxml2, ncurses, libsigcxx, libpar2
+, gnutls, libgcrypt }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "nzbget-0.7.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/nzbget/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "07kp2rwxzgcr7zrs65hwkva7l3s4czq4vxwmkbhv85k8kz6bp65p";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libxml2 ncurses libsigcxx libpar2 gnutls libgcrypt ];
+
+  postInstall =
+    ''
+      mkdir -p $out/etc
+      cp nzbget.conf.example $out/etc/
+    '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://nzbget.sourceforge.net/;
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+    description = "A command line tool for downloading files from news servers";
+  };
+}