Can't install u-he VST plugin

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I’ve tried to install an u-he VST plugin using their install.sh script. Firstly, I modified its first line from #!/bin/bash -e to #/bin/sh -e because it wouldn’t run otherwise. But when I ran it, I got the following output:

./install.sh: line 86: Zebra2/dialog: cannot execute: required file not found
Please install missing libraries:
        not a dynamic executable

Here are the lines 86-90:

if ! "$DIALOG" true; then
    echo Please install missing libraries:
    ldd "$DIALOG"
    exit 1
fi

Do you know how this could be solved?
Thanks

2

Since NixOS has very strict dependency management it’s almost impossible to run any kind of install.sh from the internet on NixOS.
You’ll need to create a NixOS derivation. A “tutorial” can be found on the wiki, but it’s not completely trivial.

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Thanks for the response!

I followed the mentioned tutorial and some articles, and this is what I ended up with (but it unfortunately doesn’t work):

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { system = builtins.currentSystem; }
, stdenv ? pkgs.stdenv
, lib ? pkgs.lib
, fetchurl ? pkgs.fetchurl
, autoPatchelfHook ? pkgs.autoPatchelfHook
}:

stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  pname = "diva";
  version = "146_15017";

  src = fetchurl {
    url = "https://dl.u-he.com/releases/Diva_${version}_Linux.tar.xz"
;
    sha256 = "0hwz091ym6445jd6n3gz638hwbvjzi3fjdgrl71a17c2v7jnnx38";
  };

  nativeBuildInputs = [
    autoPatchelfHook
  ];

  buildInputs = [ ];

  installPhase = ''
    runHook preInstall
    mkdir -p $out/bin
    sh ./install.sh
    runHook postInstall
  '';

  meta = with lib; {
    homepage = "https://u-he.com/products/diva/";
    description = "Diva: Dinosaur Impersonating Virtual Analogue synthesizer. ";
    platforms = platforms.linux;
  };
}

It downloads the archive successfully, but then it fails and its output contains this message:

installing
./install.sh: line 83: Diva/dialog: cannot execute: required file not found
Please install missing libraries:
$       not a dynamic executable

I thought that autoPatchelfHook would resolve it automatically but it seems like it doesn’t.

Any idea what the problem might be?
Thanks