Nixpkgs: Can't install intellij even though it's present in nixpkgs

[SaffronSnail]

Issue description

intellij is in nixpkgs (see here and here). However, I cannot find any package name to install it, nor does any query return any results.

Steps to reproduce

Run any of these commands:
nix-env -{qa,i} {intellij,jetbrains,jetbrains.intellij,idea,jetbrains.idea}

None of them find anything useful for me. All of them seem like reasonable things to search for/try to install, especially from what I'm reading in the scripts linked to in the first section.

Technical details

• System: NixOS: nixos-version, 17.03.1463.81fceb2554 (Gorilla)
• Nix version: nix-env (Nix) 1.11.11
• Nixpkgs version: 17.03.1463.81fceb2554
• Sandboxing enabled: false

[pbogdan]

Seems strange, I'm on a slightly newer version but only by few commits so that shouldn't make a difference and the packages are available, would you mind supplying output of:

$ nix-env -qaP --arg config {} | grep jetbrains
$ nix-env -qaP --arg config '{ allowUnfree = true; }' | grep jetbrains

[SaffronSnail]

Output of nix-env -qaP --arg config {} | grep jetbrains:

nixos.jetbrains.idea14-community                                idea-community-14.1.7
nixos.jetbrains.idea-community                                  idea-community-2017.1.3
nixos.jetbrains.pycharm-community                               pycharm-community-2017.1.3

Output of nix-env -qaP --arg config '{ allowUnfree = true; }' | grep jetbrains:

nixos.jetbrains.clion                                           clion-2016.3.3
nixos.jetbrains.datagrip                                        datagrip-2016.3.2
nixos.jetbrains.idea14-community                                idea-community-14.1.7
nixos.jetbrains.idea-community                                  idea-community-2017.1.3
nixos.jetbrains.idea14-ultimate                                 idea-ultimate-14.1.7
nixos.jetbrains.idea15-ultimate                                 idea-ultimate-15.0.6
nixos.jetbrains.idea-ultimate                                   idea-ultimate-2017.1.4
nixos.jetbrains.phpstorm10                                      phpstorm-10.0.4
nixos.jetbrains.phpstorm                                        phpstorm-2017.1.4
nixos.jetbrains.pycharm-community                               pycharm-community-2017.1.3
nixos.jetbrains.pycharm-professional                            pycharm-professional-2017.1.3
nixos.jetbrains.ruby-mine                                       ruby-mine-2016.3.1
nixos.jetbrains.ruby-mine7                                      ruby-mine-7.1.5
nixos.jetbrains.ruby-mine8                                      ruby-mine-8.0.4
nixos.jetbrains.webstorm10                                      webstorm-10.0.5
nixos.jetbrains.webstorm11                                      webstorm-11.0.4
nixos.jetbrains.webstorm                                        webstorm-2017.1.4

So, it definitely seems like something is wrong with my config; I tried nix-env -i nixos.jetbrains.idea-community, but it told my that it matched no derivations again. I searched through my nix config directory (I have a number of modules) for instances of 'pkgs' to see if anything looked suspicious, but the only thing other than accepting pkgs as an argument or referencing items in the pkgs set (ie pkgs.something or with pkgs) is allowing unfree packages.

I've modified NIX_PATH so that some packages I can reference packages I'm working on as 'saffpkgs'. I don't think this should be causing the bug, but here's the current value just in case:
saffpkgs=/usr/pkgs:saffpkgs=/usr/pkgs:nixpkgs=/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs:nixos-config=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix:/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels

[pbogdan]

Does it make a difference if you try nix-env -iA nixos.jetbrains.idea-community or nix-env -i idea-community.
For the unfree packages like clion you would need to set allowUnfree = true; in your ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix., or if you try installing them nix-env should throw an error message containing instructions.
If neither of those work then it would seem it could be something in your configuration. NIX_PATH seems OK on a first glance so I'm unsure at this point what could be causing that :-(.

[SaffronSnail]

Well, nix-env -i idea-community worked. I'm glad that I have it installed, but I don't feel like the underlying issue was solved; why does nix-env -qa idea not find this package? It's part of the package name, so I would expect it to; based on this experience, nix-env -qa provides little to no assistance in identifying package names.

[pbogdan]

it seems to work if I feed it a regex:

$  nix-env -qa  .\*idea.\*
idea-community-14.1.7
idea-community-2017.1.3
idea-ultimate-14.1.7
idea-ultimate-15.0.6
idea-ultimate-2017.1.4

EDIT: lack of which (regex, that is) I totally overlooked in your initial report... apologies for that.

[SaffronSnail]

Ooh... my mistake. I had tried nix-env -qa '*idea*' instead of nix-env -qa '.*idea.*' I guess I'm just too used to bash.

Thanks for your assistance! =)