diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/lftp/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/lftp/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..52ff7d51fd73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/lftp/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, readline}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "lftp-3.5.11";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/net/ftp/lftp/lftp-3.5.11.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "a1691cc0b6f0045a61e9f3d4f668fe13";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [readline ];
+}