diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/wget/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/wget/default.nix
index 23301ca21e3..e7cc0c91727 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/wget/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/wget/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, gettext}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "wget-1.9.1";
+  name = "wget-1.10.2";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/wget-1.9.1.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "e6051f1e1487ec0ebfdbda72bedc70ad";
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.10.2.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "795fefbb7099f93e2d346b026785c4b8";
   };
+
+  buildInputs = [gettext];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4d85f02ba96..8c95d21f7bb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ rec {
   };
 
   wget = (import ../tools/networking/wget) {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv gettext;
   };
 
   curl = if stdenv ? curl then stdenv.curl else (assert false; null);