diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/co/console-setup/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/co/console-setup/package.nix
index c064555207fb..86bb92949369 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/co/console-setup/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/co/console-setup/package.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     bdfresize
     otf2bdf
     perl
+    unifont
   ];
 
   makeFlags = [ "prefix=${placeholder "out"}" ];
@@ -35,8 +36,7 @@ stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   postPatch = ''
     patchShebangs .
     substituteInPlace Fonts/Makefile --replace-fail '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/' '${dejavu_fonts}/share/fonts/truetype/'
-    ln -s ${unifont}/share/fonts/unifont.bdf Fonts/bdf
-    substituteInPlace Fonts/Makefile --replace-fail 'rm -f $(fntdir)/bdf/unifont.bdf' ""
+    substituteInPlace Fonts/Makefile --replace-fail '/usr/share/unifont/' '${unifont.doc}/share/unifont/'
   '';
 
   preBuild = "make -j$NIX_BUILD_CORES bdf";