diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/pa/parmetis/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/pa/parmetis/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a2289eea30697
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/pa/parmetis/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  cmake,
+  metis,
+  mpi,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "parmetis";
+  version = "4.0.3";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "KarypisLab";
+    repo = "ParMETIS";
+    rev = "d90a2a6cf08d1d35422e060daa28718376213659";
+    hash = "sha256-22YQxwC0phdMLX660wokRgmAif/9tRbUmQWwNMZ//7M=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  buildInputs = [ mpi ];
+
+  configurePhase = ''
+    tar xf ${metis.src}
+    mv metis-* metis
+    make config metis_path=metis gklib_path=metis/GKlib prefix=$out
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Parallel Graph Partitioning and Fill-reducing Matrix Ordering";
+    longDescription = ''
+      MPI-based parallel library that implements a variety of algorithms for
+      partitioning unstructured graphs, meshes, and for computing fill-reducing
+      orderings of sparse matrices.
+      The algorithms implemented in ParMETIS are based on the multilevel
+      recursive-bisection, multilevel k-way, and multi-constraint partitioning
+      schemes
+    '';
+    homepage = "http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/overview";
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+    license = licenses.unfree;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.costrouc ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/parmetis/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/parmetis/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 5023390a182cb..0000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/parmetis/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv
-, fetchurl
-, cmake
-, mpi
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "parmetis";
-  version = "4.0.3";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/parmetis/parmetis-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0pvfpvb36djvqlcc3lq7si0c5xpb2cqndjg8wvzg35ygnwqs5ngj";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
-  buildInputs = [ mpi ];
-
-  # metis and GKlib are packaged with distribution
-  # AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/parmetis/ has reported that
-  # it easier to build with the included packages as opposed to using the metis
-  # package. Compilation time is short.
-  configurePhase = ''
-    make config metis_path=$PWD/metis gklib_path=$PWD/metis/GKlib prefix=$out
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "MPI-based parallel library that implements a variety of algorithms for partitioning unstructured graphs, meshes, and for computing fill-reducing orderings of sparse matrices";
-    homepage = "http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/overview";
-    platforms = platforms.all;
-    license = licenses.unfree;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.costrouc ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3b42191c8e02e..9faf51e1fed29 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -37702,8 +37702,6 @@ with pkgs;
     p4est-sc = p4est-sc-dbg;
   };
 
-  parmetis = callPackage ../development/libraries/science/math/parmetis { };
-
   QuadProgpp = callPackage ../development/libraries/science/math/QuadProgpp { };
 
   scs = callPackage ../development/libraries/science/math/scs { };