diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/builder.sh b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/builder.sh
index 1cf1400f996b..2ca74fb5f058 100755
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/builder.sh
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/builder.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ source $stdenv/setup
 
 unpackManually() {
     skip=$(sed 's/^skip=//; t; d' $src)
-    tail -n +$skip $src | xz -d | tar xvf -
+    tail -n +$skip $src | bsdtar xvf -
     sourceRoot=.
 }
 
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/generic.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/generic.nix
index e56318deca96..b76e64232b74 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/generic.nix
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 }@args:
 
 { lib, stdenv, callPackage, pkgs, pkgsi686Linux, fetchurl
-, kernel ? null, perl, nukeReferences, which
+, kernel ? null, perl, nukeReferences, which, libarchive
 , # Whether to build the libraries only (i.e. not the kernel module or
   # nvidia-settings).  Used to support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit
   # Linux.
@@ -98,8 +98,7 @@ let
     libPath = libPathFor pkgs;
     libPath32 = optionalString i686bundled (libPathFor pkgsi686Linux);
 
-    buildInputs = [ which ];
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ perl nukeReferences ]
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ perl nukeReferences which libarchive ]
       ++ optionals (!libsOnly) kernel.moduleBuildDependencies;
 
     disallowedReferences = optionals (!libsOnly) [ kernel.dev ];