PureRef nixpkg

README.md

PureRef nixpkg

This is a hacky appimage wrapper nixpkg for PureRef to integrate it into NixOS better. As you may know, it's donationware, so the author encourages a donation and this means there's no way around manually downloading the program. So as a prerequisite, you need to download PureRef separately and slap it in the same folder as the Nix file, or alternatively, change the path to an absolute one, e.g.

src = /home/you/Downloads/PureRef-1.11.1_x64.Appimage;

Ideally this would use the actual Nixpkg appimage build tooling... but that's effort, and I just want to get shit done right now and this works fine.

Usage

In your configuration.nix, or home.nix, you use callPackage to turn it into a package you can put into environment.systemPackages or home.packages:

  pureref = pkgs.callPackage (import ./pureref.nix) {};

After that's done you can open the program with pureref anywhere; it does not have an application desktop entry and won't show up e.g. in GNOME's application list, I just use Alt+F2 to call pureref and it works.

pureref.nix

{ pkgs, fetchurl }:

let
  pname = "pureref";
  version = "1.11.1";

  src = ./PureRef-1.11.1_x64.Appimage;

in

pkgs.runCommand "pureref" {
  buildInputs = with pkgs; [ appimage-run ];
} ''
  mkdir -p $out/bin

  cat <<-EOF > $out/bin/pureref
  #!/bin/sh
  ${pkgs.appimage-run}/bin/appimage-run ${src}
  EOF

  chmod +x $out/bin/pureref
''