diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/jupyterlab_launcher/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/jupyterlab_launcher/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 15b53f523b57..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/jupyterlab_launcher/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, jsonschema, notebook, pythonOlder }:
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "jupyterlab_launcher";
-  version = "0.13.1";
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.5";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "f880eada0b8b1f524d5951dc6fcae0d13b169897fc8a247d75fb5beadd69c5f0";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    jsonschema
-    notebook
-  ];
-
-  # depends on requests and a bunch of other libraries
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "This package is used to launch an application built using JupyterLab";
-    license = with licenses; [ bsd3 ];
-    homepage = "https://jupyter.org/";
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ zimbatm ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 4f843ef4a891..650abfa72b1e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   jupyter_core = jupyter-core; # added 2023-01-05
   jupyter_server = jupyter-server; # added 2023-01-05
   jupyter-server-ydoc = jupyter-collaboration; # added 2023-07-18
+  jupyterlab_launcher = throw "jupyterlab_launcher has been removed as it's abandoned for over 5 years and broken"; # added 2023-11-11
   Kajiki = kajiki; # added 2023-02-19
   Keras = keras; # added 2021-11-25
   ldap = python-ldap; # added 2022-09-16
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index ecbb5b97bcb0..0056c6646ab1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5823,8 +5823,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   jupyterlab-git = callPackage ../development/python-modules/jupyterlab-git { };
 
-  jupyterlab_launcher = callPackage ../development/python-modules/jupyterlab_launcher { };
-
   jupyterlab-pygments = callPackage ../development/python-modules/jupyterlab-pygments { };
 
   jupyterlab_server = callPackage ../development/python-modules/jupyterlab_server { };