Some years later, I have the same problems and the same question as you… It seems there is no other way than adding more and more stuff to your nix-shell until it works. In my case it was y ImportError: libexpat.so.1: cannot open shared object file error, followed by the same ImportError: libz.so.1 error and so i found this post. I just want to share my FHSUserEnv which should work for a lot of python packages:
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
# https://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/builders/special/fhs-environments/
(pkgs.buildFHSUserEnv {
name = "choose your own"; # <-- set name here
# Packages to be installed for the main host's architecture (i.e. x86_64). Along with libraries binaries are also installed.
targetPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs; [
# *** Python***
python311Full
python311Packages.pip
# *** OS ***
libgcc
binutils
coreutils
expat
libz
]);
# Packages to be installed for all architectures supported by a host (i.e. i686 and x86_64). Only libraries are installed by default.
multiPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs; []);
runScript = "bash";
}).env
Furthermore, sometimes you have to set LIBRARY_PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH env and maybe add it to multiPkgs instead of targetPkgs as described here
I hope this gives some ideas for people facing related problems…