diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/us/usbutils/fix-paths.patch b/pkgs/by-name/us/usbutils/fix-paths.patch
index ef63a41e726c..af522ac50d7b 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/us/usbutils/fix-paths.patch
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/us/usbutils/fix-paths.patch
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
---- a/Makefile.am
-+++ b/Makefile.am
-@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
- 	LICENSES/GPL-3.0-only.txt
+diff --git a/lsusb.py b/lsusb.py
+index bbc4dbb..8af1b1f 100755
+--- a/lsusb.py
++++ b/lsusb.py
+@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ showwakeup = False
  
- lsusb.py: $(srcdir)/lsusb.py.in
--	sed 's|VERSION|$(VERSION)|g;s|@usbids@|$(datadir)/usb.ids|g' $< >$@
-+	sed 's|VERSION|$(VERSION)|g;s|@usbids@|@hwdata@/share/hwdata/usb.ids|g' $< >$@
- 	chmod 755 $@
+ prefix = "/sys/bus/usb/devices/"
+ usbids = [
+-	"/usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids",
+-	"/usr/share/usb.ids",
++	"@hwdata@/share/hwdata/usb.ids",
+ ]
+ cols = ("", "", "", "", "", "")
  
- lsusb.8: $(srcdir)/lsusb.8.in
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/us/usbutils/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/us/usbutils/package.nix
index 3ffd5fe88a66..627069dafd65 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/us/usbutils/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/us/usbutils/package.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
   stdenv,
   fetchurl,
   substituteAll,
-  autoreconfHook,
+  meson,
+  ninja,
   pkg-config,
   libusb1,
   hwdata,
@@ -12,11 +13,11 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "usbutils";
-  version = "017";
+  version = "018";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://kernel/linux/utils/usb/usbutils/usbutils-${version}.tar.xz";
-    hash = "sha256-pqJf/c+RA+ONekRzKsoXBz9OYCuS5K5VYlIxqCcC4Fs=";
+    hash = "sha256-g/aLWbWFR1icACZugmcYZGJ1k6tDYtjIB/UO6pI8rZM=";
   };
 
   patches = [
@@ -27,7 +28,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
-    autoreconfHook
+    meson
+    ninja
     pkg-config
   ];
   buildInputs = [
@@ -41,10 +43,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "python"
   ];
 
-  postBuild = ''
-    $CC $NIX_CFLAGS -o usbreset usbreset.c
-  '';
-
   postInstall = ''
     moveToOutput "bin/lsusb.py" "$python"
     install -Dm555 usbreset -t $out/bin