diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/latex2html/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/latex2html/default.nix
index f6fc640eb3f8..45fec9f76da0 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/latex2html/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/latex2html/default.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     homepage = "http://www.latex2html.org/";
     description = "Converter written in Perl that converts LaTeX documents to HTML";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+
+    broken = true;
   };
 
 }