diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/nzbget/default.nix b/pkgs/by-name/nz/nzbget/package.nix
similarity index 55%
rename from pkgs/tools/networking/nzbget/default.nix
rename to pkgs/by-name/nz/nzbget/package.nix
index 19323e18fc5d7..165ee6dfc827a 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/nzbget/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/nz/nzbget/package.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 { lib
 , stdenv
 , fetchFromGitHub
-, autoreconfHook
+, fetchpatch2
+, cmake
 , boost
 , pkg-config
 , gnutls
@@ -13,21 +14,30 @@
 , ncurses
 , openssl
 , zlib
+, deterministic-uname
 , nixosTests
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "nzbget";
-  version = "24.1";
+  version = "24.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "nzbgetcom";
     repo = "nzbget";
     rev = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    hash = "sha256-HovfnTsgu07/lp/spI+iA8H7lOj0Qyrri2MOJKyMKHQ=";
+    hash = "sha256-+iJ5n/meBrMxKHSLxL5QJ7+TI0RMfAM5n/8dwYupGoU=";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkg-config ];
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch2 {
+      # status page buffer overflow fix: https://github.com/nzbgetcom/nzbget/pull/346 -- remove when version > 24.2
+      url = "https://github.com/nzbgetcom/nzbget/commit/f89978f7479cbb0ff2f96c8632d9d2f31834e6c8.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-9K7PGzmoZ8cvEKBm5htfw5fr1GBSddNkDC/Vi4ngRto=";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkg-config ];
 
   buildInputs = [
     boost
@@ -42,8 +52,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     zlib
   ];
 
-  prePatch = ''
-    sed -i 's/AC_INIT.*/AC_INIT( nzbget, m4_esyscmd_s( echo ${finalAttrs.version} ) )/' configure.ac
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace daemon/util/Util.cpp \
+      --replace-fail "std::string(\"uname \")" "std::string(\"${lib.getExe deterministic-uname} \")"
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    install -Dm444 nzbget.conf $out/share/nzbget/nzbget.conf
   '';
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0420320704d30..8391bf9fc2f3d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10931,8 +10931,6 @@ with pkgs;
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) Security CoreServices;
   };
 
-  nzbget = callPackage ../tools/networking/nzbget { };
-
   oapi-codegen = callPackage ../tools/networking/oapi-codegen { };
 
   oath-toolkit = callPackage ../tools/security/oath-toolkit { };