diff --git a/testing/tridactyl-native/APKBUILD b/testing/tridactyl-native/APKBUILD
index 243c27a97f1..6d8db5f2141 100644
--- a/testing/tridactyl-native/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/tridactyl-native/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ arch="all !s390x" # limited by nim
 license="BSD-2-Clause"
 makedepends="nim nimble"
 options="net !check" # no testsuite
-source="https://github.com/tridactyl/native_messenger/archive/refs/tags/$pkgver/tridactyl-native-firefox-$pkgver.tar.gz"
+source="https://github.com/tridactyl/native_messenger/archive/refs/tags/$pkgver/tridactyl-native-firefox-$pkgver.tar.gz
+	packages.json"
 builddir="$srcdir/native_messenger-$pkgver"
 
 # Set custom NIMBLE_DIR to not pollute $HOME/.nimble.
@@ -17,6 +18,10 @@ export NIMBLE_DIR="$srcdir/nimble"
 
 prepare() {
 	default_prepare
+
+	mkdir -p "${NIMBLE_DIR}"
+	cp "$srcdir"/packages.json "$NIMBLE_DIR/packages_official.json"
+
 	sed -i tridactyl.json \
 		-e "s|REPLACE_ME_WITH_SED|/usr/lib/$pkgname/native_main|"
 }
@@ -34,4 +39,5 @@ package() {
 
 sha512sums="
 6bd29d3a024e0ec4e2a819991f3e6d36a92bb304345281bfd048f7d0d8f2c0a7ccce5d08c7fcdea67d8d729c04b9aa9cb0387e62eb0bb9e6d2fb9d5c8e881bdc  tridactyl-native-firefox-0.3.8.tar.gz
+cc232d45be2ccf9b463536f0136abc9975c0753aacf93c36af57ee190374a38733b3cf7d67024195bcdfb801e11514e78b859deff718c039b4da1b5dd84a10ca  packages.json
 "
diff --git a/testing/tridactyl-native/packages.json b/testing/tridactyl-native/packages.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6a1d903ba9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/tridactyl-native/packages.json
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+[
+  {
+    "name": "tempfile",
+    "url": "https://github.com/OpenSystemsLab/tempfile.nim",
+    "method": "git",
+    "tags": [
+      "temp",
+      "mktemp",
+      "make",
+      "mk",
+      "mkstemp",
+      "mkdtemp"
+    ],
+    "description": "Temporary files and directories",
+    "license": "MIT",
+    "web": "https://github.com/OpenSystemsLab/tempfile.nim"
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "regex",
+    "url": "https://github.com/nitely/nim-regex",
+    "method": "git",
+    "tags": [
+      "regex"
+    ],
+    "description": "Linear time regex matching",
+    "license": "MIT",
+    "web": "https://github.com/nitely/nim-regex"
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "unicodedb",
+    "url": "https://github.com/nitely/nim-unicodedb",
+    "method": "git",
+    "tags": [
+      "unicode",
+      "UCD",
+      "unicodedata"
+    ],
+    "description": "Unicode Character Database (UCD) access for Nim",
+    "license": "MIT",
+    "web": "https://github.com/nitely/nim-unicodedb"
+  },
+]