Kraken Desktop not packaged

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Hi,

I was surprised to find that Kraken Desktop hasn’t been packaged yet. Is there a particular reason for this? How would I go about requesting this program to be added?

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In general Nixpkgs will never be fully complete; but the project has documentation explaining how you can open a pull request to add a new package, if you’d like to do so! nixpkgs/pkgs/README.md at 32a1561a8b5b2f8d860fa4d3d7ed861f0c3dcb6e · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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Because no one cared enough to package it before, that’s pretty much always the reason (unless there is some obvious issue like a security concern). Plus a closed-source crypto app sounds suspicious already.

You don’t, but as said above, you can send a pull request yourself, provided that it follows nixpkgs guidelines.

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I’m not convinced it’s a particularly good fit for nixpkgs. Anyway, if you want to maintain it and can convince someone to merge it, here is a start (x86 linux):

{
  alsa-lib,
  autoPatchelfHook,
  dbus,
  fetchurl,
  libxkbcommon,
  stdenv,
  unzip,
  wayland,
}:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
  name = "kraken-desktop";
  version = "1.10.2";
  src = fetchurl {
    url = "https://desktop-downloads.kraken.com/latest/kraken-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip";
    hash = "sha256-iMcSsU6K+fd85eQ/sN1OjTylgpYET72gtS+tLjqVcKw=";
  };

  nativeBuildInputs = [
    autoPatchelfHook
    unzip
  ];

  buildInputs = [
    alsa-lib
    dbus
    stdenv.cc.cc
  ];

  runtimeDependencies = [
    wayland
    libxkbcommon
  ];

  dontUnpack = true;
  installPhase = ''
    mkdir -p $out/{bin,share/applications}
    unzip $src
    mv kraken_desktop $out/bin
    mv kraken.desktop $out/share/applications
  '';
}

blah blah usual disclaimers. It starts on my machine. It will at least need some meta attributes, and a system check, and the rest of the hashes for various platforms. I’m not going to do any of that :slight_smile:

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This seems problematic; given that the URL contains latest, isn’t the hash pretty much guaranteed to break soon?

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Probably. That’s why I said it’s a start. I’ve invested 5 minutes and I’m not investing more :wink:

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Seems simple enough. I’ll play around with this locally, thank you.

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