diff --git a/pkgs/tools/admin/salt/pepper/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/admin/salt/pepper/default.nix
index 24e59a355532..2b3011e6b4ee 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/admin/salt/pepper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/admin/salt/pepper/default.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,20 @@
 { lib
-, fetchurl
 , python2Packages
+, salt
 }:
 
 python2Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
-  name = "salt-pepper-${version}";
-  version = "0.5.5";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/saltstack/pepper/releases/download/${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1wj1k64ly6af6qsmiizlx32jxh23a37smd9wb57l5zl0x8sfqq1n";
+  pname = "salt-pepper";
+  version = "0.7.5";
+  src = python2Packages.fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1wh6yidwdk8jvjpr5g3azhqgsk24c5rlzmw6l86dmi0mpvmxm94w";
   };
 
-  doCheck = false; # no tests available
+  buildInputs = with python2Packages; [ setuptools setuptools_scm salt ];
+  checkInputs = with python2Packages; [
+    pytest mock pyzmq pytest-rerunfailures pytestcov cherrypy tornado_4
+  ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "A CLI front-end to a running salt-api system";