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nix-index
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Where to find SAR in the package manager?
nix-index can be used to provide this functionality, and to automate this process you can use nix-index-database (setup instructions are in the README).
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Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
Are you using flakes? AFAIK `command-not-found` does not work with them. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/171054 and https://discourse.nixos.org/t/why-isnt-there-an-official-bui...
I think `nix-index` works as a replacement: https://github.com/bennofs/nix-index
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spd-say on NixOS
If you are on another distro or mac os there is also nix-index
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Nix Package Search
nix-index is another option for searching for pkgs. You can search by name, or by specific files within a pkg.
- Alternative to the "dnf provides"
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Building a program in NixOS
You can use nix-locate from https://github.com/bennofs/nix-index to find files on NixOS:
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What is the package to install the gsettings binary?
nix-index makes it trivial to find which package contains a given file.
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How to properly setup git clang-format in a shell.nix
There are two ways I know of: - If you use old-school channels, there's an index in the channel. In particular, the command-not-found hook is able to use that. In this particular case, you would have to guess that git will look for the git-clang-tools, and command-not-found that. This looks like it only works for programs, not arbitrary files. - In any case, you can use the more general nix-index. That's what I did because I use flakes.
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An automatically-updated nix-index
I use nix-index a lot to find which derivation a file belongs to, but building the index takes a while and so I end up not updating it very frequently.
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Rant: I want nix, but I'm almost done
Look at the library missing say X Use nix-locate to find the derivation that includes libX.dylib file (if it can’t find the macOS dylib version of the file try using the same name for linux by changing dylib for so) Add the derivation to you environmental and try again It will find the next missing library on the next compile.
nix-search-cli
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
- you may want to search from the command line
`nix search` is a cruel joke which doesn't allow searching by the name/program that would be installed, only package name, and requires a flake name every time. Absolutely terrible interface.
My tool is a single-install binary that performs fast and accurate search to help you find the right package name to install a given binary. I don't understand how after years of using other package managers anyone could want a search tool that does anything other than this by default.
For more details on why this exists, check out https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli#motivation
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Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
The nix package search website is OK, but it doesn't let you filter by the names of installed binaries. A lot of the time, you have a question like "what nixpkgs attribute do i install in order to get the `python3` command". I recently wrote a command line tool that allows you to do this. It uses the same elasticsearch index as the search website, but allows more powerful filtering. If anyone is thinking of getting into nix, please consider trying it out!
https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli
- Show HN: nix-search-cli: find Nix packages from the CLI
What are some alternatives?
nix-index-database - Weekly updated nix-index database [maintainer=@Mic92]
nixbyexample - Learn nix by example
colmena - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool
nixos-search - Search NixOS packages and options
nickel - Better configuration for less
buck2-nix - Do not taunt happy fun ball
persway - Petite Puppeteer of Pandemonium - your very own Sway IPC Imp
text - Haskell library for space- and time-efficient operations over Unicode text.
nix-doc - An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script
comma - Comma runs software without installing it. [maintainers=@Artturin,@burke,@DavHau]
cue - The home of the CUE language! Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration
dateilager - Shared and versioned filesystem manager