diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/get_iplayer/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/get_iplayer/default.nix
index 0e222366729f..308b181fe88c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/get_iplayer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/get_iplayer/default.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, flvstreamer, ffmpeg, makeWrapper, perl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "get_iplayer-2.80";
+{stdenv, fetchurl, flvstreamer, ffmpeg, makeWrapper, perl, buildPerlPackage, perlPackages, vlc, rtmpdump}:
+buildPerlPackage {
+  name = "get_iplayer-2.83";
 
   buildInputs = [makeWrapper perl];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with perlPackages; [HTMLParser HTTPCookies LWP];
+
+  preConfigure = "touch Makefile.PL";
+  doCheck = false;
 
   installPhase = '' 
     mkdir -p $out/bin
     cp get_iplayer $out/bin
-    wrapProgram $out/bin/get_iplayer --suffix PATH ${ffmpeg}/bin:${flvstreamer}/bin
+    sed -i 's|^update_script|#update_script|' $out/bin/get_iplayer
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/get_iplayer --suffix PATH : ${ffmpeg}/bin:${flvstreamer}/bin:${vlc}/bin:${rtmpdump}/bin
   '';  
   
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/get_iplayer/get_iplayer-2.80.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "1hnadryyzca3bv1hfk2q3np9ihwvyxa3prwcrply6ywy4vnayjf8";
+    url = ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/get_iplayer/get_iplayer-2.83.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "169zji0rr3z5ng6r4cyzvs89779m4iklln9gsqpryvm81ipalfga";
   };
   
 }