diff --git a/addSanity.sh b/addSanity.sh
index 5a0c38063..3a359c91d 100755
--- a/addSanity.sh
+++ b/addSanity.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -ex
 
 # $(replace_in_file pattern file)
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index b4857e76a..2bc426cb9 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
 PKG_ENV_FILE="_build/shake-package-env-$(ghc --numeric-version)"
diff --git a/distribution/build-linux-arm64-musl.sh b/distribution/build-linux-arm64-musl.sh
index 3e37fb289..a25297e39 100755
--- a/distribution/build-linux-arm64-musl.sh
+++ b/distribution/build-linux-arm64-musl.sh
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ declare -f build_binary_docker
 # docker -H ssh://root@lamdera-falkenstein-arm64-1 run \
 #     -v /root/compiler:/root/compiler \
 #     -it registry.gitlab.b-data.ch/ghc/ghc4pandoc:9.2.7 \
-#     /bin/bash
+#     /usr/bin/env bash
 
 mkdir -p $dist
 
diff --git a/distribution/common.sh b/distribution/common.sh
index f003ff72f..5ae76783c 100644
--- a/distribution/common.sh
+++ b/distribution/common.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 export version="1.2.1"
diff --git a/ext-package-cache/testCompress.sh b/ext-package-cache/testCompress.sh
index 8d0ad0c57..a215dded1 100755
--- a/ext-package-cache/testCompress.sh
+++ b/ext-package-cache/testCompress.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -ex
 
 # tar cf - . | zip backup -
diff --git a/extra/npm/publish-all.sh b/extra/npm/publish-all.sh
index 9b0e7cae7..8547e2070 100755
--- a/extra/npm/publish-all.sh
+++ b/extra/npm/publish-all.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -ex
 
 # The publish will fail if the package name and version combination already exists in the specified registry.
diff --git a/package/linux/build-in-docker.sh b/package/linux/build-in-docker.sh
index d3e2804f1..bf6a44bb3 100755
--- a/package/linux/build-in-docker.sh
+++ b/package/linux/build-in-docker.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
diff --git a/removeSanity.sh b/removeSanity.sh
index b7089588c..9fb45def4 100755
--- a/removeSanity.sh
+++ b/removeSanity.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -ex
 
 if [ "$OS" != 'Darwin' ]; then
diff --git a/stack.yaml b/stack.yaml
index 044900a2d..362e61225 100644
--- a/stack.yaml
+++ b/stack.yaml
@@ -47,3 +47,8 @@ packages:
 # https://discourse.haskell.org/t/announce-ghcup-0-1-15-rc2-windows-pre-release/2616/14
 # however it seems stack automatically includes a bunch of paths, don't think this helped?
 # - C:\ghcup\msys64\mingw64\include
+
+nix:
+  packages:
+    - pkg-config
+    - zlib