diff --git a/pkgs/misc/ntfsprogs/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/ntfsprogs/default.nix
index 8f2e6839309..3deb668eddb 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/ntfsprogs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/ntfsprogs/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,23 @@
-args: with args;
-args.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+{stdenv, fetchurl, libuuid}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "ntfsprogs-2.0.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    name = "ntfsprogs-2.0.0.tar.bz2";
-    url = "http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/linux-ntfs/ntfsprogs-2.0.0.tar.bz2";
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/linux-ntfs/${name}.tar.bz2";
     sha256 = "ad36e19706c7303b10aa0a9bf2c2dd0309b91cd0171f1c9eb361d94a85017432";
   };
 
+  buildInputs = [libuuid];
+
+  preConfigure =
+    ''
+      substituteInPlace ntfsprogs/Makefile.in --replace /sbin $out/sbin
+    '';
+
   meta = {
-      description = "ntfs utilities";
-      homepage = http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs;
-      license = "GPL";
+    description = "Utilities for the NTFS filesystem";
+    homepage = http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs;
+    license = "GPL";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ff923717115..53b791eef58 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6658,6 +6658,8 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
+  libuuid = e2fsprogs;
+
   e3cfsprogs = import ../os-specific/linux/e3cfsprogs {
     inherit stdenv fetchurl gettext;
   };
@@ -9544,7 +9546,7 @@ let
   };
 
   ntfsprogs = import ../misc/ntfsprogs {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv libuuid;
   };
 
   pgadmin = import ../applications/misc/pgadmin {