diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/beta.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/beta.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9846be8a43a81..0000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/beta.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-{lib, stdenv, fetchgit
-, wxGTK, perl, python2, zlib, libGLU, libGL, libX11
-, automake, autoconf
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "golly";
-  version = "2.8.99.2.20161122";
-  #src = fetchurl {
-  #  url="mirror://sourceforge/project/golly/golly/golly-2.8/golly-2.8-src.tar.gz";
-  #  sha256="0a4vn2hm7h4b47v2iwip1z3n9y8isf79v08aipl2iqms2m3p5204";
-  #};
-  src = fetchgit {
-    url = "git://git.code.sf.net/p/golly/code";
-    rev = "93495edf3c9639332c6eb43ca7149c69629ee5d8";
-    sha256 = "1j308s9zlqkr3wnl1l32s5zk7r3g4ijwawkkysl8j5ik9sibi2gk";
-  };
-
-  setSourceRoot = ''
-    export sourceRoot="$(echo */gui-wx/configure)"
-  '';
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [autoconf automake];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    wxGTK perl python2 zlib libGLU libGL libX11
-  ];
-
-  # Link against Python explicitly as it is needed for scripts
-  makeFlags=[
-    "AM_LDFLAGS="
-  ];
-  NIX_LDFLAGS="-l${python2.libPrefix} -lperl -ldl -lGL";
-  preConfigure=''
-    export NIX_LDFLAGS="$NIX_LDFLAGS -L$(dirname "$(find ${perl} -name libperl.so)")"
-    export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="$NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE
-      -DPYTHON_SHLIB=$(basename "$(
-        readlink -f ${python2}/lib/libpython*.so)")"
-
-    sh autogen.sh
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Cellular automata simulation program";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    maintainers = [lib.maintainers.raskin];
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-    downloadPage = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/golly";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index b68d1b0b27cd9..fe2459f561e55 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   gobby5 = gobby; # Added 2021-02-01
   gobjectIntrospection = throw "'gobjectIntrospection' has been renamed to/replaced by 'gobject-introspection'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   gogoclient = throw "gogoclient has been removed, because it was unmaintained"; # Added 2021-12-15
+  golly-beta = throw "golly-beta has been removed: use golly instead"; # Added 2022-03-21
   goimports = throw "'goimports' has been renamed to/replaced by 'gotools'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   gometalinter = throw "gometalinter was abandoned by upstream. Consider switching to golangci-lint instead"; # Added 2020-04-23
   googleAuthenticator = throw "'googleAuthenticator' has been renamed to/replaced by 'google-authenticator'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ca05863803dfa..e55d4bae0065a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -32980,7 +32980,6 @@ with pkgs;
   gravit = callPackage ../applications/science/astronomy/gravit { };
 
   golly = callPackage ../applications/science/misc/golly { wxGTK = wxGTK30; };
-  golly-beta = callPackage ../applications/science/misc/golly/beta.nix { wxGTK = wxGTK30; };
 
   megam = callPackage ../applications/science/misc/megam {
     inherit (ocaml-ng.ocamlPackages_4_07) ocaml;