Thanks Gábor, adding zipfile fixes the build and Retux now runs. Patch attached and CC'd to guix-patches. Regards, Ben On Sun, 21 Jan 2018, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > I think unzip should be added to native-inputs. Can you try that? > > 2018-01-21 4:46 GMT+01:00 Ben Sturmfels : > > Hi Folks, > > I'd like to play the Retux game, but while the game starts up it > crashes > on me after the "preloading levels" screen. > > There's no useful console output, but when running in the debugger, I > see that the python-uniseg package is looking for a file called > ucd.sqlite3 that doesn't exist, some kind of Unicode letter spacing > database that's not present in the BitBucket repository. > > python3 -m pdb -c continue \ > "/gnu/store/57psnlgdyri8phkxzasaf6q0gb8nskpz-retux-1.3.5/bin/.retux-real" > > > See uniseg/db.py:107 and 21. Since it's also looking in the current > directory, I tried downloading ucd.sqlite3 from the PyPI zip package - > that fixes the issue. > > The python-uniseg package downloads the source from BitBucket, so > I > tried changing that to PyPI: > > (uri (pypi-uri "uniseg" version ".zip")) > > which downloads ok, but fails but the fails at the unpack phase > without > any details. Should Guix know how to unpack a .zip? Or maybe I > should > coerce the maintainer to publish a .tar.gz? > > Currently Retux is the only program that uses python-uniseg (via > python-sge-pygame dependency). > > Regards, > Ben