diff --git a/pkgs/applications/kde/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/kde/default.nix
index fed0e84de737..6a57ccf9ee6e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/kde/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/kde/default.nix
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ let
       kigo = callPackage ./kigo.nix {};
       killbots = callPackage ./killbots.nix {};
       kimap = callPackage ./kimap.nix {};
+      kio-admin = callPackage ./kio-admin.nix {};
       kio-extras = callPackage ./kio-extras.nix {};
       kio-gdrive = callPackage ./kio-gdrive.nix {};
       kipi-plugins = callPackage ./kipi-plugins.nix {};
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/kde/kio-admin.nix b/pkgs/applications/kde/kio-admin.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4734d447a1ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/kde/kio-admin.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{ mkDerivation, lib, extra-cmake-modules, qtbase, kio, ki18n, polkit-qt }:
+
+mkDerivation {
+  pname = "kio-admin";
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ extra-cmake-modules ];
+  buildInputs = [ qtbase kio ki18n polkit-qt ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Manage files as administrator using the admin:// KIO protocol.";
+    homepage = "https://invent.kde.org/system/kio-admin";
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ k900 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/kio-admin/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/kio-admin/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e4a97fa255a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/kio-admin/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitLab, cmake, extra-cmake-modules, qtbase, wrapQtAppsHook, kio, ki18n, polkit-qt }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "kio-admin";
-  version = "1.0.0";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitLab {
-    domain = "invent.kde.org";
-    owner = "system";
-    repo = "kio-admin";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-llnUsOttqFJVArJdZS9s6qHS9eGbdtdoaPMXKHtsUn4=";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake extra-cmake-modules wrapQtAppsHook ];
-  buildInputs = [ qtbase kio ki18n polkit-qt ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Manage files as administrator using the admin:// KIO protocol.";
-    homepage = "https://invent.kde.org/system/kio-admin";
-    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ k900 ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index ee87c750db94..60bd366de97a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -789,6 +789,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   kindlegen = throw "kindlegen has been removed from nixpkgs, as it's abandoned and no longer available for download"; # Added 2021-03-09
   kinetic-cpp-client = throw "kinetic-cpp-client has been removed from nixpkgs, as it's abandoned"; # Added 2020-04-28
   kino = throw "kino has been removed because it was broken and abandoned"; # Added 2021-04-25
+  kio-admin = libsForQt5.kdeGear.kio-admin; # Added 2023-03-18
   knockknock = throw "knockknock has been removed from nixpkgs because the upstream project is abandoned"; # Added 2022-01-01
   kodestudio = throw "kodestudio has been removed from nixpkgs, as the nix package has been long unmaintained and out of date."; # Added 2022-06-07
   kodiGBM = kodi-gbm;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d0db95eda950..4db46c431657 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8963,8 +8963,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   kibi = callPackage ../applications/editors/kibi { };
 
-  kio-admin = libsForQt5.callPackage ../tools/filesystems/kio-admin { };
-
   kio-fuse = libsForQt5.callPackage ../tools/filesystems/kio-fuse { };
 
   kismet = callPackage ../applications/networking/sniffers/kismet { };