diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/urlview/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/urlview/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..02d26f660019
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/urlview/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, automake111x, autoreconfHook }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version    = "0.9";
+  patchLevel = "19";
+
+  name = "urlview-${version}-${patchLevel}";
+
+  urlBase = "mirror://debian/pool/main/u/urlview/";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = urlBase + "urlview_${version}.orig.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "746ff540ccf601645f500ee7743f443caf987d6380e61e5249fc15f7a455ed42";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses automake111x autoreconfHook ];
+
+  preAutoreconf = ''
+    touch NEWS
+  '';
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/share/man/man1
+  '';
+
+  debianPatches = fetchurl {
+    url = urlBase + "urlview_${version}-${patchLevel}.diff.gz";
+    sha256 = "056883c17756f849fb9235596d274fbc5bc0d944fcc072bdbb13d1e828301585";
+  };
+
+  patches = debianPatches;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Extract URLs from text";
+    homepage = http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/urlview.html;
+    licencse = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f7e3c28e3d7b..2db6017d7e7c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1912,6 +1912,8 @@ let
   unoconv = callPackage ../tools/text/unoconv { };
 
   upx = callPackage ../tools/compression/upx { };
+ 
+  urlview = callPackage ../applications/misc/urlview {};
 
   usbmuxd = callPackage ../tools/misc/usbmuxd {};