diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/adoptopenjdk-bin/jdk-linux-base.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/adoptopenjdk-bin/jdk-linux-base.nix
index 6e3fe6c4ebf1..8e8b157aa229 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/adoptopenjdk-bin/jdk-linux-base.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/adoptopenjdk-bin/jdk-linux-base.nix
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ let result = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     # Remove some broken manpages.
     rm -rf $out/man/ja*
 
+    # Remove embedded freetype to avoid problems like
+    # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/57733
+    rm $out/lib/libfreetype.so
+
     # for backward compatibility
     ln -s $out $out/jre