A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
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Saving the cwd fd didn't actually work well -- prior to this commit, the following would happen: : ~/w/vc/nix ; doas outputs/out/bin/nix --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' run nixpkgs#coreutils -- --coreutils-prog=pwd pwd: couldn't find directory entry in ‘../../../..’ with matching i-node : ~/w/vc/nix ; doas outputs/out/bin/nix --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' develop -c pwd pwd: couldn't find directory entry in ‘../../../..’ with matching i-node |
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config | ||
contrib | ||
doc/manual | ||
m4 | ||
maintainers | ||
misc | ||
mk | ||
perl | ||
scripts | ||
src | ||
tests | ||
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.editorconfig | ||
.gitignore | ||
.version | ||
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff | ||
bootstrap.sh | ||
configure.ac | ||
COPYING | ||
default.nix | ||
docker.nix | ||
flake.lock | ||
flake.nix | ||
local.mk | ||
Makefile | ||
Makefile.config.in | ||
precompiled-headers.h | ||
README.md | ||
shell.nix |
Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.
Additional Resources
- Nix manual
- Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
- NixOS Discourse
- Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
- IRC - #nixos on libera.chat
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.