Live-share: Does not work on NixOS

[luxferresum]

Product and Version [VS/VSCode]: VSCode
OS Version ]: NixOS
Live Share Extension Version: 1.0.1293

Basically just installing the dependencies will not work, which makes sense considering how NixOS works. But it is unfortunate at least.

[setaskin]

Thank you for reaching out. Adding @fubaduba for info .

[rawkode]

Would really love NixOS support, please

[ThibaultLemaire]

I don't know the internals, but it shouldn't be too hard to make it work: all the direct dependencies are here, according to the detailed requirements.

So I tried launching vscodium in a nix-shell with my guessed requirements

nix-shell -p dotnet-netcore libsecret desktop-file-utils xorg.xprop vscodium --run codium

and installing the extension, but I'm getting a corrupted download error. I don't know if it's related.

[setaskin]

@fubaduba assigned to you for info.

[rowanG077]

I have found no way to run live-share. Is this still on the radar?

[lukasstevens]

Now works on the master branch of NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/8b4db57358c57873a3baa6fe5ebfe1cb7b6ccc03/pkgs/misc/vscode-extensions/ms-vsliveshare-vsliveshare/default.nix

[lostintangent]

@lukasstevens Thanks for the update here! I'm going to close this as resolved as a result 👍