diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/wxcam/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/wxcam/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a6c6ff524e3..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/wxcam/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl
-, pkg-config
-, intltool
-, libX11, libXv, libSM
-, gtk, libglade
-, wxGTK
-, perlPackages
-, xvidcore
-, mjpegtools
-, alsa-lib
-, libv4l
-, cimg }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-
-  pname = "wxcam";
-  version = "1.1";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/project/wxcam/wxcam/${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1765bvc65fpzn9ycnnj5hais9xkx9v0sm6a878d35x54bpanr859";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = with lib;
-  [ pkg-config intltool libX11 libXv libSM gtk libglade wxGTK perlPackages.XMLParser xvidcore mjpegtools alsa-lib libv4l cimg ];
-
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="-I ${cimg}/include/cimg";
-
-  postUnpack = ''
-    sed -ie 's|/usr/share/|'"$out/share/"'|g' $sourceRoot/Makefile.in
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    make install prefix="$out" wxcamdocdir="$out/share/doc/wxcam"
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "An open-source, wxGTK-based webcam app for Linux";
-    longDescription = ''
-    wxCam is a webcam application for linux. It supports video recording
-    (avi uncompressed and Xvid formats), snapshot taking, and some special
-    commands for philips webcams, so you can also use it for astronomy purposes.
-    It supports both video4linux 1 and 2 drivers,
-    so it should work on a very large number of devices.
-    '';
-    homepage = "http://wxcam.sourceforge.net/";
-    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.AndersonTorres ];
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 34d68ed5f13d..68345ce42b2d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1471,6 +1471,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   wmii_hg = wmii;
   ws = throw "ws has been dropped due to the lack of maintenance from upstream since 2018"; # Added 2022-06-03
   wxmupen64plus = throw "wxmupen64plus was removed because the upstream disappeared"; # Added 2022-01-31
+  wxcam = throw "'wxcam' has seen no updates in ten years, crashes (SIGABRT) on startup and depends on deprecated wxGTK28/GNOME2/GTK2, use 'gnome.cheese'"; # Added 2022-06-15
 
   ### X ###
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3f7b1251e0a5..6e5418af68b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -30739,9 +30739,6 @@ with pkgs;
     wxGTK = wxGTK31;
   };
 
-  wxcam = callPackage ../applications/video/wxcam
-    { stdenv = gcc10StdenvCompat;     inherit (gnome2) libglade; wxGTK = wxGTK28; gtk = gtk2; };
-
   xa = callPackage ../development/compilers/xa/xa.nix { };
   dxa = callPackage ../development/compilers/xa/dxa.nix { };