diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/lrzip/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/lrzip/default.nix
index 0faa3e22c5c0..41dda513e573 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/lrzip/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/lrzip/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, zlib, lzo, bzip2, nasm}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, zlib, lzo, bzip2, nasm, perl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "lrzip-0.44";
+  name = "lrzip-0.606";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1ncr6igs8v6yxp60sgb9h4ra8wb7jzbxiyj4a9m4nrxyw8fwm2iv";
+    sha256 = "03qxqs7y868w2kfpa84xmhdnh3b4j9x29g4hkzyrg8f4cxgkcv8k";
   };
 
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-isystem ${zlib}/include";
-
-  buildInputs = [ zlib lzo bzip2 nasm ];
+  buildInputs = [ zlib lzo bzip2 nasm perl ];
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/;