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Hi,

In Nixos packages intellij ultimate is older and a new version of intellij idea(2024.1) is released, how can I get it in my nixos pc? I am using flakes and installed it using system packages. Please help.

Thank you.

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IDEA has just been updated in Nixpkgs. It should be available with the next unstable-channel update.

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Great, thank you. But is there a way to get the latest version when the version is old in Nixos packages?

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In general you can override the src attribute in the existing package to (locally) create a package of the updated version. For the Jetbrains products: These have slightly more elaborate structure and are usually updated in bulk.
The easiest way would be to check out the Nixpkgs repo, run the Jetbrains updater script and use the local repo for rebuilding. If things work fine, you can contribute back by opening a PR with the update.

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You can use two flake inputs: nixpkgs (referring to stable) and nixpkgs-unstable (referring to nixos-unstable).

In your NixOS config, you can then consume clion, intellij and whatnot from nixpkgs-unstable as I did here while the general system still comes from the stable nixpkgs version: nixos-configs/common/modules/user-env/programs/gui/default.nix at dd99692257603ea20e2df9ee3ebd1411791a0c99 · phip1611/nixos-configs · GitHub

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You could also use jetbrains-toolbox !

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correct, but for some reason, apps installed through toolbox are not runnig/starting.

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Going to test that right now.

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It worked immediately here…

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Toolbox runs inside an fhs environment with all the libraries needed for IDEA, so you can’t just use the generated shortcuts to launch the IDEs installed, you need to use toolbox to launch them too.
If you want to use the shortcuts directly, you’ll need to set up nix-ld with the following libraries:

Long snippet 
    programs.nix-ld.enable = true;
    programs.nix-ld.libraries = with pkgs; [
      SDL
      SDL2
      SDL2_image
      SDL2_mixer
      SDL2_ttf
      SDL_image
      SDL_mixer
      SDL_ttf
      alsa-lib
      at-spi2-atk
      at-spi2-core
      atk
      bzip2
      cairo
      cups
      curlWithGnuTls
      dbus
      dbus-glib
      desktop-file-utils
      e2fsprogs
      expat
      flac
      fontconfig
      freeglut
      freetype
      fribidi
      fuse
      fuse3
      gdk-pixbuf
      glew110
      glib
      gmp
      gst_all_1.gst-plugins-base
      gst_all_1.gst-plugins-ugly
      gst_all_1.gstreamer
      gtk2
      harfbuzz
      icu
      keyutils.lib
      libGL
      libGLU
      libappindicator-gtk2
      libcaca
      libcanberra
      libcap
      libclang.lib
      libdbusmenu
      libdrm
      libgcrypt
      libgpg-error
      libidn
      libjack2
      libjpeg
      libmikmod
      libogg
      libpng12
      libpulseaudio
      librsvg
      libsamplerate
      libthai
      libtheora
      libtiff
      libudev0-shim
      libusb1
      libuuid
      libvdpau
      libvorbis
      libvpx
      libxcrypt-legacy
      libxkbcommon
      libxml2
      mesa
      nspr
      nss
      openssl
      p11-kit
      pango
      pixman
      python3
      speex
      stdenv.cc.cc
      tbb
      udev
      vulkan-loader
      wayland
      xorg.libICE
      xorg.libSM
      xorg.libX11
      xorg.libXScrnSaver
      xorg.libXcomposite
      xorg.libXcursor
      xorg.libXdamage
      xorg.libXext
      xorg.libXfixes
      xorg.libXft
      xorg.libXi
      xorg.libXinerama
      xorg.libXmu
      xorg.libXrandr
      xorg.libXrender
      xorg.libXt
      xorg.libXtst
      xorg.libXxf86vm
      xorg.libpciaccess
      xorg.libxcb
      xorg.xcbutil
      xorg.xcbutilimage
      xorg.xcbutilkeysyms
      xorg.xcbutilrenderutil
      xorg.xcbutilwm
      xorg.xkeyboardconfig
      xz
      zlib
    ];

Source: JetBrains applications/products installed using JetBrains Toolbox won't start · Issue #240444 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
It’s a bit of a dirty solution but it makes the shortcuts work properly.

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I also updated the wiki article with nix-ld a while ago… Jetbrains Tools - NixOS Wiki