Nix Flakes | 877 Members | |
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| Sender | Message | Time |
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| 18 Mar 2025 | ||
| Hi! I have a possibly kind of dumb question, but when I install something like Zotero via NixOS, I can just run it, right?
Then I need to install the dynamic libraries myself. I thought the entire idea of Nix was that nixpkgs knows what the dynamic libraries are for zotero and it figures it out for your system? | 14:18:38 | |
Works with github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-24.11 this is unrelated to Flakes | 14:29:02 | |
| Should be reported at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues as an issue with zotero on unstable | 14:29:53 | |
| * Should be reported at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues as an issue with the newest zotero version on unstable | 14:30:20 | |
| Oh huh, you're right. On 24.11 it does launch (although I get a different bug). I didn't realize it was an issue with the zotero package itself | 14:30:42 | |
| I'm getting a crash with 24.11 though :(
| 14:31:10 | |
| Can you provide more details? | 14:32:01 | |
| I'm running NixOS unstable myself. The only thing I changed in the flake was to pin to
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I run nix develop then zotero | 14:32:55 | |
Download image.png | 14:33:08 | |
Why | 14:33:33 | |
| Uh, why not? | 14:33:48 | |
| . | 14:33:56 | |
| I would not recommend using the unstable branch unless you are testing the unstable branch or planning to fix it if something breaks on your system | 14:34:20 | |
| Hmm, many people kept recommending to just use unstable rather than stable | 14:34:38 | |
| I'll switch to stable then, I mean.. | 14:34:45 | |
| Who is many people? | 14:34:48 | |
| Makes more sense to me | 14:34:49 | |
| People on Reddit | 14:34:54 | |
| but I think this community is a bit more professional and technical | 14:35:02 | |
| While it can sometimes have advantages using packages from unstable or even master Don't do it if you don't know hot to handle it? | 14:35:23 | |
| * While it can sometimes have advantages using packages from unstable or even master Don't do it if you don't know how to handle it? | 14:35:30 | |
| Eh, I would know how to workaround this issue, it's more just that I didn't expect it | 14:35:49 | |
| Like I said, I often doubt myself rather than the packages when it comes to Nix | 14:35:56 | |
| In stable I'd agree, in unstable it's anyone's guess where problems usually are | 14:36:26 | |
| Fair enough, that makes sense | 14:36:34 | |
| I'll downgrade to stable then, I can always specify that I want a specific package from unstable if it's important | 14:37:00 | |
| Nevermind, it shouldn't: It's already reported https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/389978 And solved https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/390243 Which is already in master | 14:39:31 | |
| Fair enough, thanks for your help | 14:40:40 | |
| I successfully downgraded to 24.11 stable :) Despite the weird edge cases sometimes, Nix really does have the amazing benefit of being incredibly easy to control | 15:41:07 | |