diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/oversteer/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/oversteer/default.nix
index 87c49c2cf7aa..7f7cf60836d1 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/oversteer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/oversteer/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pkg-config, gettext, python3, python3Packages
-, meson, cmake, ninja, udev, appstream, appstream-glib, desktop-file-utils, gtk3
+, meson, ninja, udev, appstream, appstream-glib, desktop-file-utils, gtk3
 , wrapGAppsHook, gobject-introspection, bash, }:
 let
   python = python3.withPackages (p:
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ let
       pygobject3
     ]);
 
-  version = "0.7.2";
+  version = "0.8.0";
 in stdenv.mkDerivation {
   inherit version;
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
     owner = "berarma";
     repo = "oversteer";
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-9MWRb0NXUbB8c+pH0mjUzsz849PmEjsZMhQr4wsmlKI=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-fkf6sa4yYbxGOehyLzuFj5nZiPK3B1D/VVvobhKB4Uo=";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ bash gtk3 ];
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
       --replace /bin/sh ${bash}/bin/sh
   '';
 
-  patches = [ ./fix-install-dir.patch ];
+  patches = [ ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/berarma/oversteer";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/oversteer/fix-install-dir.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/oversteer/fix-install-dir.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d5fdec68982..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/oversteer/fix-install-dir.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
-index 239acf9..6a06c83 100644
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pymod = import('python')
- prefix = get_option('prefix')
- pkgdatadir = join_paths(prefix, get_option('datadir'), meson.project_name())
- py_installation = pymod.find_installation(get_option('python'))
--py_path = py_installation.get_path('purelib')
-+py_path = py_installation.get_install_dir()
- 
- python3_required_modules = ['gi', 'pyudev', 'xdg', 'evdev', 'gettext', 'matplotlib', 'scipy', 'numpy']
- foreach p : python3_required_modules