diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/moku/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/moku/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 3aba750f22e7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/moku/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
-, zeroconf
-, requests
-, setuptools
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "moku";
-  version = "2.6.0";
-
-  /*
-
-  Pypi's webpage <https://pypi.org/project/moku/> lists
-  https://github.com/liquidinstruments/moku/archive/${version}.tar.gz as the
-  download link, but that repository doesn't exist from some reason :/. When
-  packaging this, I didn't find any mention of a git repo of the sources. Note
-  that the pymoku <https://github.com/liquidinstruments/pymoku> repo holds the
-  sources of the legacy API package.
-
-  */
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    hash = "sha256-tG54V26H7viu5DPs3EWTg7ouCsdC3EXoeb8iexO6YBw=";
-  };
-  /*
-
-  Note: If you run `moku download` and encounter the error:
-
-  [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/nix/store/.../lib/python 3.9/site-packages/moku/data'
-
-  Then use the $MOKU_DATA_PATH environment variable to control where the
-  downloaded files will go to. It is undocumented upstream and there's no
-  repository to contribute such documentation unfortunately. Also there is no
-  suitable default value for this on Nix systems, so there's no patch we can
-  apply locally to make the situation better.
-
-  */
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    zeroconf
-    requests
-    setuptools
-  ];
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [
-    "moku"
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Python scripting interface to the Liquid Instruments Moku";
-    homepage = "https://apis.liquidinstruments.com/starting-python.html";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ doronbehar ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 6d04faa59460..44e95775573c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -982,6 +982,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   moby = throw "moby has been removed, merged into linuxkit in 2018.  Use linuxkit instead";
   module_init_tools = throw "'module_init_tools' has been renamed to/replaced by 'kmod'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   monero = monero-cli; # Added 2021-11-28
+  moku = throw "moku: Unusable since 2.6.2, not maintained upstream anymore"; # Added 2022-02-26
   mongodb-3_4 = throw "mongodb-3_4 has been removed, it's end of life since January 2020"; # Added 2022-11-30
   mongodb-3_6 = throw "mongodb-3_6 has been removed, it's end of life since April 2021"; # Added 2022-11-30
   mongodb-4_0 = throw "mongodb-4_0 has been removed, it's end of life since April 2022"; # Added 2023-01-05
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e8fb3117bd1e..75a09e7dc79a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6029,8 +6029,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   mohawk = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mohawk { };
 
-  moku = callPackage ../development/python-modules/moku { };
-
   monai = callPackage ../development/python-modules/monai { };
 
   monero = callPackage ../development/python-modules/monero { };