diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/fasttext/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/fasttext/default.nix
index 2ae5e0eeddc..64124594e1e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/fasttext/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/fasttext/default.nix
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "fasttext";
-  version = "0.9.1";
+  version = "0.9.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "facebookresearch";
     repo = "fastText";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1cbzz98qn8aypp4r5kwwwc9wiq5bwzv51kcsb15xjfs9lz8h3rii";
+    sha256 = "07cz2ghfq6amcljaxpdr5chbd64ph513y8zqmibfx2xwfp74xkhn";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix
index 050b3873a00..42e6446e864 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/fasttext/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,12 @@
-{stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, numpy, pybind11}:
+{stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, numpy, pkgs, pybind11 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "fasttext";
-  version = "0.9.1";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "facebookresearch";
-    repo = "fastText";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1cbzz98qn8aypp4r5kwwwc9wiq5bwzv51kcsb15xjfs9lz8h3rii";
-  };
+  inherit (pkgs.fasttext) pname version src;
 
   buildInputs = [ pybind11 ];
 
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "fasttext" ];
+
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy ];
 
   preBuild = ''