Eelco Dolstra
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'nix run' will try to run $out/bin/<name>, where <name> is the derivation name (excluding the version). This often works well: $ nix run nixpkgs#hello Hello, world! $ nix run nix -- --version nix (Nix) 2.4pre20200626_adf2fbb $ nix run patchelf -- --version patchelf 0.11.20200623.e61654b $ nix run nixpkgs#firefox -- --version Mozilla Firefox 77.0.1 $ nix run nixpkgs#gimp -- --version GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.10.14 though not always: $ nix run nixpkgs#git error: unable to execute '/nix/store/kp7wp760l4gryq9s36x481b2x4rfklcy-git-2.25.4/bin/git-minimal': No such file or directory
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
Building Nix
You can build Nix using one of the targets provided by release.nix:
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.aarch64-linux
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.x86_64-darwin
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.i686-linux
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.x86_64-linux
Development Environment
You can use the provided shell.nix to get a working development environment:
$ nix-shell
$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
Additional Resources
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.