diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/casperjs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/casperjs/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 80786a10f5f1..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/casperjs/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fontsConf, phantomjs2, python, nodePackages }:
-
-let version = "1.1.1";
-
-in stdenv.mkDerivation {
-
-  pname = "casperjs";
-  inherit version;
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "casperjs";
-    repo = "casperjs";
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "187prrm728xpn0nx9kxfxa4fwd7w25z78nsxfk6a6kl7c5656jpz";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ phantomjs2 python nodePackages.eslint ];
-
-  patchPhase = ''
-    substituteInPlace bin/casperjs --replace "/usr/bin/env python" "${python}/bin/python" \
-                                   --replace "'phantomjs'" "'${phantomjs2}/bin/phantomjs'"
-  '';
-
-  dontBuild = true;
-
-  doCheck = true;
-  checkPhase = ''
-    export FONTCONFIG_FILE=${fontsConf}
-    make test
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    cp -r . $out
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-
-    description = ''
-      Navigation scripting & testing utility for PhantomJS and SlimerJS
-    '';
-
-    longDescription = ''
-      CasperJS is a navigation scripting & testing utility for PhantomJS and
-      SlimerJS (still experimental). It eases the process of defining a full
-      navigation scenario and provides useful high-level functions, methods &
-      syntactic sugar for doing common tasks.
-    '';
-
-    homepage = "http://casperjs.org";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
-
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.bluescreen303 ];
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index d96a16b13998..33b2c84f327a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   buildGo112Module = throw "buildGo112Module has been removed"; # added 2020-04-26
   bundler_HEAD = bundler; # added 2015-11-15
   cantarell_fonts = cantarell-fonts; # added 2018-03-03
+  casperjs = throw "casperjs has been removed, it was abandoned by upstream and broken.";
   catfish = xfce.catfish; # added 2019-12-22
   cgmanager = throw "cgmanager was deprecated by lxc and therefore removed from nixpkgs."; # added 2020-06-05
   checkbashism = checkbashisms; # added 2016-08-16
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 128d580d1903..145975d96b49 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10149,10 +10149,6 @@ in
 
   cask = callPackage ../development/tools/cask { };
 
-  casperjs = callPackage ../development/tools/casperjs {
-    inherit (texFunctions) fontsConf;
-  };
-
   cbrowser = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/cbrowser { };
 
   ccache = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/ccache { };