custom apps

Skyemou5@lemmy.fmhy.ml to nixos@lemmy.ml – 1 points –

So Iamm new to nix. I come from fedora and do vfx, which means I need houdini nuke and many other things. They needopticx and cuda working and those apps are not installed via the nix repository, because they are proprietary. How would I go about setting up a houdini install that is at least somewhat reproducible. These apps require some older libraries like libpng. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great.

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Houdini is available in nixpkgs, it just isn't in the binary cache and requires you to download the necessary files (add it via nix-store --add-fixed sha256 ./houdini-19.5.569-linux_x86_64_gcc9.3.tar.gz). Nuke isn't, but you can look at the Houdini derivation for reference.