# Package Request (E-signature)
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [May 29, 2025, 6:05am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920 "2025-05-29T06:05:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@nefsim](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/nefsim)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 6:05am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/1 "2025-05-29T06:05:07Z")
Hello,
I request that two packages for **e-signature** adapted for Debain be adapted in NixOS. I would be very grateful if my request is accepted. Thank you.
Links to Packages :
1- [https://downloads.arksigner.com/files/arksigner-pub-2.3.11.deb](https://downloads.arksigner.com/files/arksigner-pub-2.3.11.deb) (this package is very important)
2- [https://kamusm.bilgem.tubitak.gov.tr/islemler/surucu\_yukleme\_servisi/suruculer/AkisKart/linux/Akia\_linux\_6\_4\_1\_deb.zip](https://kamusm.bilgem.tubitak.gov.tr/islemler/surucu_yukleme_servisi/suruculer/AkisKart/linux/Akia_linux_6_4_1_deb.zip)
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### Author:  [@uep](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/uep)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 6:46am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/2 "2025-05-29T06:46:59Z")
Aside: if you’re running nixos, and just need to run these specific tools occasionally, that’s possible via an emulation container. Probably the simplest and most packaged way to do this is [distrobox](https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Distrobox), and that should be usable without waiting, too.
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### Author:  [@nefsim](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/nefsim)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 7:14am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/3 "2025-05-29T07:14:34Z")
@uep Thank you, I need to use these packages all the time, not just occasionally. I would be very grateful if it could be adapted as a package for NixOS.
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### Author:  [@wamserma](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/wamserma)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/4 "2025-05-29T10:27:45Z")
I had a quick look:
- Arksigner vendors a few outdates libraries (parts of Qt5, OpenSSL 1.0.1t from 2016,…) - patching/replacing these to make in work on NixOS might be doable, but nothing that is solved in a few minutes. Adopting the systemd-service should be straightforward.
- the other packages a Java program built with Install4j, which might be a lot of work to get the binaries to run on NixOS; it can probably be run under an FHS env
A container is probably the easiest way to use these programs on NixOS. Note that you can not have a pcscd daemon running on the host, as it would capture any chipcard device and the pcscd daemon user by Arksigner would not see it.
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### Author:  [@nefsim](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/nefsim)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/5 "2025-05-29T10:36:37Z")
@wamserma I wanted to open a topic because I don’t have technical knowledge, I would be very pleased if it is added to the repo or if a friend makes this adaptation.
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### Author:  [@wamserma](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/wamserma)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/6 "2025-05-29T10:54:57Z")
Your request is valid. However given the amount of work that is needed to have this in Nixpkgs/NixOS, the small amount of expected users and the impossibility to easily test the programs, I do not expect to get this packaged/maintained by a volunteer.
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### Author:  [@nefsim](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/nefsim)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/7 "2025-05-29T11:10:41Z")
I’ll run the necessary tests 🙂
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### Author:  [@tmarkov](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/tmarkov)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/8 "2025-05-29T12:21:03Z")
What exactly does this program do? Maybe there is an equivalent available…
Also, (I guess this is related, since this is an e-signing app) I saw safenet authentication agent isn’t working for you - what smartcard and reader are you using? Do you have installation instructions for it in English for Debian/Ubuntu?
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### Author:  [@nefsim](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/nefsim)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/9 "2025-05-29T12:30:18Z")
@tmarkov There are 2 e-signatures, one of them is safenet and the other one is developed by tubitak (for this there must be arksigner application). Especially the e-signature of the tubitak company used, I use this system institutionally, I am not a home user. If this problem is solved, I will be very comfortable. In Ubuntu and debianda arksigner and safenet work fine. I have tested it and I would be very happy if it works in NixOS.
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### Author:  [@waffle8946](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/waffle8946)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/10 "2025-05-29T16:26:35Z")
If you crosspost, please link the posts to each other to prevent double work.
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> \### Nixpkgs version
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> \- Stable (25.05)
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> \### Describe the proposed module
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> Hello,
> …I request that two packages for e-signature adapted for Debain be adapted in NixOS. I would be very grateful if my request is accepted. Thank you.
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> Links to Packages :
> 1- https://downloads.arksigner.com/files/arksigner-pub-2.3.11.deb (this package is very important)
> 2- https://kamusm.bilgem.tubitak.gov.tr/islemler/surucu\_yukleme\_servisi/suruculer/AkisKart/linux/Akia\_linux\_6\_4\_1\_deb.zip
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> \### Additional context
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### Author:  [@nefsim](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/nefsim)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/package-request-e-signature/64920/11 "2025-05-30T05:09:02Z")
@waffle8946 Ok, I closed the github part