Ristretto and Raws

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Hi,

I’ve read that in order to read Raws with Ristretto, we need to install libopenraw.

So I did and even installed libraw, added them to nix-ld, but no luck, I get Unsupported mime type.

What am I missing?

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You’d need to actually include it in the package’s build environment. This might or might not work, depending on whether their build system auto-detects library presence or if you need to set some variables or something:

# configuration.nix
{ pkgs, ... }: {
  environment.systemPackages = [
    (pkgs.ristretto.overrideAttrs (old: {
      buildInputs = old.buildInputs ++ [
        pkgs.libraw
      ];
    }))
  ];
}

It looks like this might need to go into some gdk variable, so I suspect it won’t work; Refer to upstream documentation for specific build instructions.

Generally, that’s how you add optional libraries to stuff on NixOS, rather than nix-ld - if you rely on that a lot, I’d recommend limiting it to specific packages by setting the NIX_LD variable by hand and not using the NixOS option, if only to slowly learn how nix actually works.

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Thanks for your answer! I switched to nomacswhich works out of the box :slight_smile: