diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/igraph/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/igraph/default.nix
index fcb5e7918d96..7f494e8bddc1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/igraph/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/igraph/default.nix
@@ -4,28 +4,34 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "igraph";
-  version = "0.7.1";
+  version = "0.8.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "igraph";
     repo = pname;
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "1wsy0r511gk069il6iqjs27q8cjvqz20gf0a7inybx1bw84845z8";
+    sha256 = "015yh9s19lmxm7l1ld8adlsqh1lrmzicl801saixdwl9w05hfva4";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig autoreconfHook ];
   buildInputs = [ flex yacc zlib libxml2 ];
 
-  # This file is normally generated by igraph's bootstrap.sh, but we can do it
-  # ourselves. ~ C.
+  # Normally, igraph wants us to call bootstrap.sh, which will call
+  # tools/getversion.sh. Instead, we're going to put the version directly
+  # where igraph wants, and then let autoreconfHook do the rest of the
+  # bootstrap. ~ C.
   postPatch = ''
-    echo "${version}" > VERSION
+    echo "${version}" > IGRAPH_VERSION
   '';
 
+  doCheck = true;
+
   meta = {
     description = "The network analysis package";
     homepage = "https://igraph.org/";
     license = lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    # NB: Known to fail tests on aarch64.
+    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
     maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.MostAwesomeDude ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-igraph/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-igraph/default.nix
index a2bf20188ff1..12a327be2a67 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-igraph/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-igraph/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 { buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, lib, isPy3k
-, pkgconfig, igraph }:
+, pkgconfig, igraph
+, texttable }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "python-igraph";
@@ -7,12 +8,18 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ igraph ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ texttable ];
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
     sha256 = "4601638d7d22eae7608cdf793efac75e6c039770ec4bd2cecf76378c84ce7d72";
   };
 
+  # NB: We want to use our igraph, not vendored igraph, but even with
+  # pkg-config on the PATH, their custom setup.py still needs to be explicitly
+  # told to do it. ~ C.
+  setupPyGlobalFlags = [ "--use-pkg-config" ];
+
   doCheck = !isPy3k;
 
   meta = {