gplates while loading shared libraries: libSM.so.6

[Canadauni]

Describe the bug

Unable to launch gplates on NixOS. A shared object file appears to be missing.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. nix-shell -p gplates
2. gplates
3. Output: gplates: error while loading shared libraries: libSM.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Expected behavior

gplates is expected to launch and be usable.

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No listed maintainers on Nix Packages but @wegank was the last to touch the source for this application.

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.1.74, NixOS, 23.11 (Tapir), 23.11.3376.1b64fc128799`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.1`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-23.11"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

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[wegank]

Probably adding libSM to buildInputs and/or adding autoPatchelfHook to nativeBuildInputs might help, but I'm too tired to debug tonight. I'll look into it in the next few days.

[Canadauni]

Thank you, I was reading about the first option you suggested being a potential fix. I'll see if I can wrap my head around doing it on my own as well this week, though I don't have a lot of experience contributing to projects likes this.