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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.
nixbyexample
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Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
It’s super vague. The only way I could find to understand how to create a flake (for https://mimoo.github.io/nixbyexample/) was trial and error and diving into the nix codebase.
- Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
- nixos vscode rust analyzer cannot read rust-src in /nix/store because it requires root permissions
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Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix
This is great! After spending some time with nix and writing https://mimoo.github.io/nixbyexample/ I figured it’s too consuming and hard to manage nix yourself. These usable user-facing tools are really what nix needs to go to the next level
- How to deal with the error: Unbound module Sys_unix
What are some alternatives?
nix-index-database - Weekly updated nix-index database [maintainer=@Mic92]
nixos-config - Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨
colmena - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
nickel - Better configuration for less
nix-darwin - nix modules for darwin
persway - Petite Puppeteer of Pandemonium - your very own Sway IPC Imp
nix-search-cli - CLI for searching packages on search.nixos.org
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
devshell - Per project developer environments
cue - The home of the CUE language! Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration
devbox - Instant, easy, and predictable development environments