diff --git a/nixos/modules/programs/environment.nix b/nixos/modules/programs/environment.nix
index 38bdabb4fa81..8877356360a5 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/programs/environment.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/programs/environment.nix
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ in
       { PATH = [ "/bin" ];
         INFOPATH = [ "/info" "/share/info" ];
         KDEDIRS = [ "" ];
-        STRIGI_PLUGIN_PATH = [ "/lib/strigi/" ];
         QT_PLUGIN_PATH = [ "/lib/qt4/plugins" "/lib/kde4/plugins" ];
         QTWEBKIT_PLUGIN_PATH = [ "/lib/mozilla/plugins/" ];
         GTK_PATH = [ "/lib/gtk-2.0" "/lib/gtk-3.0" ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/strigi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/strigi/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 33a2ae25b121..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/strigi/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, qt4, perl, bzip2, libxml2, exiv2
-, clucene_core, fam, zlib, dbus, pkgconfig
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "strigi";
-  version = "0.7.8";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/${pname}-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "12grxzqwnvbyqw7q1gnz42lypadxmq89vk2qpxczmpmc4nk63r23";
-  };
-
-  includeAllQtDirs = true;
-
-  CLUCENE_HOME = clucene_core;
-
-  buildInputs =
-    [ zlib bzip2 libxml2 qt4 exiv2 clucene_core fam dbus.out ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkgconfig perl ];
-
-  patches = [ ./export_bufferedstream.patch ./gcc6.patch ];
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  # Strigi installs some libraries in an incorrect place
-  # ($out/$out/lib instead of $out/lib), so move them to the right
-  # place.
-  postInstall =
-    ''
-      mv $out/$out/lib/* $out/lib
-      rm -rf $out/nix
-    '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "http://strigi.sourceforge.net";
-    description = "A very fast and efficient crawler to index data on your harddrive";
-    license = "LGPL";
-    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ sander ];
-    inherit (qt4.meta) platforms;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/strigi/export_bufferedstream.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/strigi/export_bufferedstream.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c6b34fe1bec..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/strigi/export_bufferedstream.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r strigi-0.7.8/libstreams/include/strigi/bufferedstream.h strigi-0.7.8_new/libstreams/include/strigi/bufferedstream.h
---- strigi-0.7.8/libstreams/include/strigi/bufferedstream.h	2013-02-05 13:34:57.000000000 -0800
-+++ strigi-0.7.8_new/libstreams/include/strigi/bufferedstream.h	2013-07-14 17:01:54.000000000 -0700
-@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
-  * BufferedStream will do the rest.
-  */
- template <class T>
--class BufferedStream : public StreamBase<T> {
-+class STRIGI_EXPORT BufferedStream : public StreamBase<T> {
- private:
-     StreamBuffer<T> buffer;
-     bool finishedWritingToBuffer;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/strigi/gcc6.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/strigi/gcc6.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b46f6c52b823..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/strigi/gcc6.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-https://sourceforge.net/p/strigi/patches/4/
-
-and a fix for
-
-/tmp/nix-build-strigi-0.7.8.drv-0/strigi-0.7.8/libstreamanalyzer/plugins/indexers/clucenengindexer/cluceneindexreader.cpp:325:37: error: no matching function for call to 'make_pair(std::__cxx11::string, std::__cxx11::string&)'
-             wchartoutf8(name), value));
-
-diff -Naur strigi-0.7.8.old/libstreamanalyzer/cmake/MacroCheckGccVisibility.cmake strigi-0.7.8/libstreamanalyzer/cmake/MacroCheckGccVisibility.cmake
---- strigi-0.7.8.old/libstreamanalyzer/cmake/MacroCheckGccVisibility.cmake	2013-02-05 16:34:52.000000000 -0500
-+++ strigi-0.7.8/libstreamanalyzer/cmake/MacroCheckGccVisibility.cmake	2016-05-14 11:39:54.586260564 -0400
-@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
-    # get the gcc version
-    exec_program(${CMAKE_C_COMPILER} ARGS ${CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ARG1} --version OUTPUT_VARIABLE _gcc_version_info)
- 
--   string (REGEX MATCH "[345]\\.[0-9]\\.[0-9]" _gcc_version "${_gcc_version_info}")
-+   string (REGEX MATCH "[3456789]\\.[0-9]\\.[0-9]" _gcc_version "${_gcc_version_info}")
-    # gcc on mac just reports: "gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 ..." without the patch level, handle this here:
-    if (NOT _gcc_version)
-       string (REGEX REPLACE ".*\\(GCC\\).* ([34]\\.[0-9]) .*" "\\1.0" _gcc_version "${_gcc_version_info}")
-diff -Naur strigi-0.7.8.old/libstreams/cmake/MacroCheckGccVisibility.cmake strigi-0.7.8/libstreams/cmake/MacroCheckGccVisibility.cmake
---- strigi-0.7.8.old/libstreams/cmake/MacroCheckGccVisibility.cmake	2013-02-05 16:34:57.000000000 -0500
-+++ strigi-0.7.8/libstreams/cmake/MacroCheckGccVisibility.cmake	2016-05-14 11:40:11.340134414 -0400
-@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
-    # get the gcc version
-    exec_program(${CMAKE_C_COMPILER} ARGS ${CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ARG1} --version OUTPUT_VARIABLE _gcc_version_info)
- 
--   string (REGEX MATCH "[345]\\.[0-9]\\.[0-9]" _gcc_version "${_gcc_version_info}")
-+   string (REGEX MATCH "[3456789]\\.[0-9]\\.[0-9]" _gcc_version "${_gcc_version_info}")
-    # gcc on mac just reports: "gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 ..." without the patch level, handle this here:
-    if (NOT _gcc_version)
-       string (REGEX REPLACE ".*\\(GCC\\).* ([34]\\.[0-9]) .*" "\\1.0" _gcc_version "${_gcc_version_info}")
-
-diff -ru strigi-0.7.8-orig/libstreamanalyzer/plugins/indexers/clucenengindexer/cluceneindexreader.cpp strigi-0.7.8/libstreamanalyzer/plugins/indexers/clucenengindexer/cluceneindexreader.cpp
---- strigi-0.7.8-orig/libstreamanalyzer/plugins/indexers/clucenengindexer/cluceneindexreader.cpp	2013-02-05 22:34:52.000000000 +0100
-+++ strigi-0.7.8/libstreamanalyzer/plugins/indexers/clucenengindexer/cluceneindexreader.cpp	2017-07-31 10:56:27.067902643 +0200
-@@ -321,8 +321,7 @@
-         string size = value;
-         doc.size = atoi(size.c_str());
-     } else {
--        doc.properties.insert(make_pair<const string, string>(
--            wchartoutf8(name), value));
-+        doc.properties.emplace(wchartoutf8(name), value);
-     }
- }
- Variant
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index df8e021c901d..83f0915de89d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -15379,8 +15379,6 @@ in
   streamlink = callPackage ../applications/video/streamlink { pythonPackages = python3Packages; };
   streamlink-twitch-gui-bin = callPackage ../applications/video/streamlink-twitch-gui/bin.nix {};
 
-  strigi = callPackage ../development/libraries/strigi { clucene_core = clucene_core_2; };
-
   subdl = callPackage ../applications/video/subdl { };
 
   subtitleeditor = callPackage ../applications/video/subtitleeditor { enchant = enchant1; };