diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ne/netboot/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ne/netboot/package.nix
index 07b020907e06..48c427cb4134 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ne/netboot/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ne/netboot/package.nix
@@ -5,15 +5,16 @@
   bison,
   lzo,
   db4,
+  versionCheckHook,
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "netboot";
   version = "0.10.2";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/netboot/netboot-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "09w09bvwgb0xzn8hjz5rhi3aibysdadbg693ahn8rylnqfq4hwg0";
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/netboot/netboot-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.gz";
+    hash = "sha256-4HFIsMOW+owsVCOZt5pq2q+oRoS5fAmR/R2sx/dKgCc=";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [
@@ -31,13 +32,18 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   #  link: `parseopt.lo' is not a valid libtool object
   enableParallelBuilding = false;
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  nativeInstallCheckInputs = [ versionCheckHook ];
+  versionCheckProgram = "${placeholder "out"}/bin/nbdbtool";
+  versionCheckProgramArg = "--version";
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+
+  meta = {
     description = "Mini PXE server";
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.raskin ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ raskin ];
     platforms = [
       "x86_64-linux"
       "aarch64-linux"
     ];
-    license = lib.licenses.free;
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Only;
   };
-}
+})