Installing wpsoffice, unpacking deb archives

1

The url for wpsoffice seems to be stale, so I tried using this:

nix-repl> u = fetchurl {
          url="http://wdl1.pcfg.cache.wpscdn.com/wpsdl/wpsoffice/download/linux/9126/wps-office_11.1.0.9126.XA_amd64.deb";
          sha256="10d5sgpl1i70rj2596i6865hj0xdlzwdrwiplz41zys6l4zbmfp7";
          }

nix-repl> o = wpsoffice.overrideAttrs (o: {src = u;})

nix-repl> :b o
builder for '/nix/store/ly35v3apmszyacm266knmkk90bak5wzs-wpsoffice-10.1.0.5672.drv' failed with exit code 1; last 3 log lines:
  unpacking sources
  unpacking source archive /nix/store/hajm4anmwrahljl603l7aibj9az7yp96-wps-office_11.1.0.9126.XA_amd64.deb
  do not know how to unpack source archive /nix/store/hajm4anmwrahljl603l7aibj9az7yp96-wps-office_11.1.0.9126.XA_amd64.deb
[0 built (1 failed), 0.0 MiB DL]
error: build of '/nix/store/ly35v3apmszyacm266knmkk90bak5wzs-wpsoffice-10.1.0.5672.drv' failed

Nix expression for wpsoffice has an attribute named unpackCmd:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/7b3802dfd11bac3b107702bda0b81be5f12ca396/pkgs/applications/office/wpsoffice/default.nix

But for some reason it’s not being used here.

2

I noticed the drv you are actually building is version 10.1.0.5672, please check if you accidently use an old channel

3

This is the output of nix-info -m:

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 4.19.108, NixOS, 19.09.2218.a81842b6994 (Loris)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.3.3`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-19.09.2218.a81842b6994"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

Commit a81842b6994 in nixpkgs was made on march 4 this year.

4

Overriding unpackCmd to "${dpkg}/bin/dpkg -x $src ." but now I am getting another error saying:

unpacker produced multiple directories

The deb file contains etc, usr and opt folders.

5

wps get updated in Dec 3, 2019 after three years of the last version update and some build recipe changes, which is not included in 19.09: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/9974c079152df7551896ab477524230278ee1b3f#diff-85b519c3da52c3aa89996d730c2b4da0
Also notice the current package contains some unresolved problems as mentioned in the new pr:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82408

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sourceRoot = "."; should do the trick. With multiple directories, the default scripts don’t know which directory to cd into.