diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libmtp/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libmtp/package.nix
index d3edc7c2cf418..f5c2eb548f089 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/li/libmtp/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/li/libmtp/package.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   autoconf,
   automake,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  fetchpatch,
   gettext,
   lib,
   libiconv,
@@ -23,6 +24,20 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "sha256-hIH6W8qQ6DB4ST7SlFz6CCnLsEGOWgmUb9HoHMNA3wY=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # gettext-0.25 support
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "gettext-0.25.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/libmtp/libmtp/commit/5e53ee68e61cc6547476b942b6aa9776da5d4eda.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-eXDNDHg8K+ZiO9n4RqQPJrh4V9GNiK/ZxZOA/oIX83M=";
+    })
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "gettext-0.25-p2.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/libmtp/libmtp/commit/122eb9d78b370955b9c4d7618b12a2429f01b81a.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-Skqr6REBl/Egf9tS5q8k5qmEhFY+rG2fymbiu9e4Mho=";
+    })
+  ];
+
   outputs = [
     "bin"
     "dev"
@@ -41,7 +56,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ libusb1 ];
 
-  preConfigure = "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh";
+  preConfigure = ''
+    autopoint -f
+    NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
+  '';
 
   configureFlags = [ "--with-udev=${placeholder "out"}/lib/udev" ];