diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/nu/nux/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/nu/nux/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index b682cde9c6c2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/nu/nux/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  rustPlatform,
-  asciidoctor,
-  installShellFiles,
-}:
-
-let
-  pname = "nux";
-  version = "0.1.4";
-in
-rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
-  inherit pname version;
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "NuxPackage";
-    repo = pname;
-    rev = version;
-    hash = "sha256-k3HRaWN8/MTZRGWBxI8RRK0tcSYBbSLs3vHkUdLGTc8";
-  };
-
-  useFetchCargoVendor = true;
-  cargoHash = "sha256-iemfLIiT2BOsf0Q4X8fmEHmgHMd0WQk1t2rmRUuF5pY=";
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    asciidoctor
-    installShellFiles
-  ];
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    installManPage $releaseDir/build/nux-*/out/nux.1
-    installShellCompletion $releaseDir/build/nux-*/out/nux.{bash,fish}
-    installShellCompletion $releaseDir/build/nux-*/out/_nux
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/NuxPackage/nux";
-    description = "Wrapper over the nix cli";
-    license = with lib.licenses; [ gpl3Plus ];
-    maintainers = [ ];
-    mainProgram = "nux";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 16f676a7ceb6..7e7ba527c4df 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1117,6 +1117,7 @@ mapAliases {
   noto-fonts-extra = noto-fonts; # Added 2023-04-08
   NSPlist = nsplist; # Added 2024-01-05
   nushellFull = lib.warnOnInstantiate "`nushellFull` has has been replaced by `nushell` as it's features no longer exist" nushell; # Added 2024-05-30
+  nux = throw "nux has been removed because it has been abandoned for 4 years"; # Added 2025-03-22
   nvidia-podman = throw "podman should use the Container Device Interface (CDI) instead. See https://web.archive.org/web/20240729183805/https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html#configuring-podman"; # Added 2024-08-02
   nvidia-thrust = throw "nvidia-thrust has been removed because the project was deprecated; use cudaPackages.cuda_cccl";
   nvtop = lib.warnOnInstantiate "nvtop has been renamed to nvtopPackages.full" nvtopPackages.full; # Added 2024-02-25