diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/gretl/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/gretl/default.nix
index 315433feb1c2..026be6fa1a4d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/math/gretl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/gretl/default.nix
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  # Missing install depends:
+  #  cp: cannot stat '...-gretl-2022c/share/gretl/data/plotbars': Not a directory
+  #  make[1]: *** [Makefile:73: install_datafiles] Error 1
+  enableParallelInstalling = false;
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "A software package for econometric analysis";