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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Before this patch, installing Nix using the Fish shell did not work because Fish wasn't configured to add Nix to the PATH. Some options in #1512 offered workarounds, but they typically involve extra plugins or packages. This patch adds native, out-of-the-box support for the Fish shell. Note that Fish supports a `conf.d` directory, which is intended for exactly use cases like this: software projects distributing shell snippets. This patch takes advantage of it. The installer doesn't append any Nix loader behavior to any Fish config file. Because of that, the uninstall process is smooth and a reinstall obliterates the existing nix.fish files that we place instead of bothering the user with a backup / manual removal. Both single-user and multi-user cases are covered. It has been tested on Ubuntu, and a Mac with MacPorts, homebrew, and the Fish installer pkg. Closes #1512 Co-authored-by: Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com> |
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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.