diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tsocks/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tsocks/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a0d607517ac3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/tsocks/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "tsocks-${version}";
+  version = "1.8beta5";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/tsocks/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0ixkymiph771dcdzvssi9dr2pk1bzaw9zv85riv3xl40mzspx7c4";
+  };
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+      export configureFlags="$configureFlags --libdir=$out/lib"
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Transparent SOCKS v4 proxying library";
+    homepage = http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/;
+    license = "GPLv2";
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.phreedom ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f5b7409a0155..f7e84af2332d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5033,6 +5033,8 @@ let
 
   unicap = callPackage ../development/libraries/unicap {};
 
+  tsocks = callPackage ../development/libraries/tsocks { };
+
   unixODBC = callPackage ../development/libraries/unixODBC { };
 
   unixODBCDrivers = recurseIntoAttrs (import ../development/libraries/unixODBCDrivers {