Veracrypt wants "sudo" and "dmsetup" to work!

I installed veracrypt but it is running into error when I try to mount a drive.

First it is asking for sudo. So when I launch it as sudo veracrypt it is asking for “dmsetup”:

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Looks like the app is not used to the nix way… how do I setup it up so it works?

My nix config:

# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
# your system.  Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page
# and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).

{ config, pkgs, ... }:

{
  imports =
    [ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
      ./hardware-configuration.nix
    ];

  # Bootloader.
  boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
  boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;

  #kernel
  boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_5_15;
 

  networking.hostName = "nixos"; # Define your hostname.
  # networking.wireless.enable = true;  # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.

  # Configure network proxy if necessary
  # networking.proxy.default = "http://user:password@proxy:port/";
  # networking.proxy.noProxy = "127.0.0.1,localhost,internal.domain";

  # Enable networking
  networking.networkmanager.enable = true;

  # Set your time zone.
  time.timeZone = "Asia/Kolkata";

  # Select internationalisation properties.
  i18n.defaultLocale = "en_IN";

  i18n.extraLocaleSettings = {
    LC_ADDRESS = "en_IN";
    LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_IN";
    LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_IN";
    LC_MONETARY = "en_IN";
    LC_NAME = "en_IN";
    LC_NUMERIC = "en_IN";
    LC_PAPER = "en_IN";
    LC_TELEPHONE = "en_IN";
    LC_TIME = "en_IN";
  };

  # Enable the X11 windowing system.
  # You can disable this if you're only using the Wayland session.
  services.xserver.enable = true;

  # Enable the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment.
  services.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
  services.desktopManager.plasma6.enable = true;

  # Configure keymap in X11
  services.xserver.xkb = {
    layout = "us";
    variant = "";
  };

# use nvidia drivers
# https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia

nixpkgs.config.nvidia.acceptLicense = true;

boot.blacklistedKernelModules = [ "nouveau" ];
boot.extraModulePackages = [config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.legacy_470];
boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "nvidia" "nvidia_modeset" "nvidia_drm" ];

# Enable OpenGL
hardware.graphics = {
enable = true;
};

hardware.nvidia = {

# Modesetting is required.
modesetting.enable = true;

# Nvidia power management. Experimental, and can cause sleep/suspend to fail.
# Enable this if you have graphical corruption issues or application crashes after waking
# up from sleep. This fixes it by saving the entire VRAM memory to /tmp/ instead
# of just the bare essentials.
powerManagement.enable = false;

# Fine-grained power management. Turns off GPU when not in use.
# Experimental and only works on modern Nvidia GPUs (Turing or newer).
powerManagement.finegrained = false;

# Use the NVidia open source kernel module (not to be confused with the
# independent third-party "nouveau" open source driver).
# Support is limited to the Turing and later architectures. Full list of
# supported GPUs is at:
# https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#compatible-gpus
# Only available from driver 515.43.04+
# Currently alpha-quality/buggy, so false is currently the recommended setting.
open = false;

# Enable the Nvidia settings menu,
# accessible via `nvidia-settings`.
nvidiaSettings = true;

# Optionally, you may need to select the appropriate driver version for your specific GPU.
package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.legacy_470;
};

# Load nvidia driver for Xorg and Wayland
services.xserver.videoDrivers = ["nvidia"];

# disable wayland
services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.wayland = false;

# Enable CUPS to print documents.
services.printing.enable = true;

# Enable sound with pipewire.
hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
security.rtkit.enable = true;
services.pipewire = {
enable = true;
alsa.enable = true;
alsa.support32Bit = true;
pulse.enable = true;
# If you want to use JACK applications, uncomment this
#jack.enable = true;

# use the example session manager (no others are packaged yet so this is enabled by default,
# no need to redefine it in your config for now)
#media-session.enable = true;
};

# Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager).
# services.xserver.libinput.enable = true;

# Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
users.users.moss = {
isNormalUser = true;
description = "moss";
extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" ];
packages = with pkgs; [
kdePackages.kate
#  thunderbird
];
};

security.sudo.extraRules= [
{  users = [ "moss" ];
commands = [
{ command = "ALL" ;
options= [ "NOPASSWD" ]; # "SETENV" # Adding the following could be a good idea
}
];
}
];


  # Install firefox.
  programs.firefox.enable = true;

  # Allow unfree packages
  nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;

  # List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:
  # $ nix search wget
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  pkgs.inxi
  pkgs.geany
  pkgs.nushell
  pkgs.doublecmd
  pkgs.vlc
  pkgs.mpvc
  pkgs.pqiv
  pkgs.chromium
  pkgs.carapace
  pkgs.dms
  pkgs.mediainfo-gui
  pkgs.ffmpeg-full
  pkgs.kitty
  pkgs.qbittorrent
  pkgs.tor-browser
  pkgs.telegram-desktop
  pkgs.pciutils
  pkgs.virtualglLib
  pkgs.zed-editor
  pkgs.vulkan-tools
  pkgs.veracrypt
  pkgs.python311
  pkgs.python311Packages.flask
  pkgs.lvm2
  pkgs.sudo
  pkgs.calibre
  pkgs.anki-bin
  pkgs.bookworm
  pkgs.jetbrains.pycharm-community-bin
  pkgs.vscode-fhs
  pkgs.kdePackages.partitionmanager
  #  vim # Do not forget to add an editor to edit configuration.nix! The Nano editor is also installed by default.
  wget
  ];

  # Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are
  # started in user sessions.
  # programs.mtr.enable = true;
  # programs.gnupg.agent = {
  #   enable = true;
  #   enableSSHSupport = true;
  # };

  # List services that you want to enable:

  # Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
  # services.openssh.enable = true;

  # Open ports in the firewall.
  # networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ];
  # networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ];
  # Or disable the firewall altogether.
  # networking.firewall.enable = false;

  # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
  # settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
  # on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave
  # this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
  # Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
  # (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
  system.stateVersion = "24.11"; # Did you read the comment?

}

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I’m having a similar issue, even using the unstable package, I checked and the losetup is available in the system.
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This is a known recently-introduced bug, caused by the upstream hardcoding paths of used binaries of external tools such as sudo, umount, etc. Related issue with a WIP PR:

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