nix-installer
nix-portable
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15 | 11 | |
1,573 | 706 | |
6.4% | - | |
8.8 | 7.8 | |
8 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Rust | Nix | |
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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nix-installer
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A new Debian package helper: debputy
This is a way improved[1] version of the official installer, capable of uninstallation among many other things, there is no need to use the official one: https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer
1: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer?tab=read...
- The Determinate Nix Installer
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macOS Sonoma is available today
The Determinate Systems nix installer is quite smooth: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/
Though it does tend to get clobbered on macOS updates.
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PackagingCon – a conference only for software package management
and that's just the simple version, on Linux, and thus is likely the happy-path in CI.
When trying to use it locally on macOS, this here is just some "you wanna do _what_?!": https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/tree/v0.... (not to pick on determinate.systems, the upstream is similarly facepalm: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-... )
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Home manager installation - Could not find suitable profile directory
I installed nix with the following nix-installer: bash curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install Now I'm trying to install home-manager and I'm starting from 3.2 Standalone setup with the following command: bash nix run home-manager/master -- init --switch but it gives me the following error message: Could not find suitable profile directory, tried /home/tornax/.local/state/home-manager/profiles and /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/tornax
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Tumbleweed on Steam Deck
Alternatively the Determinate Systems Nix installer runs on Steamdeck. They even have instructions for setting up a Steamdeck VM where you can try out anything before buying (other than running games).
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A guide for setting up Guix as a package manager for openSUSE MicroOS
Nice write up. But my question would be why not just use the Determinate Systems Nix installer to install nix? Is there a specific reason you went with Guix?
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Executing a remote sh command for installation - why is this so risky?
Personally, I like using this alternate installer. I find it a bit easier to work with. https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
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The downvote button is on the bottom left
You should be able to install both in a container and on the host. And for the install script, no idea why it doesn't work for you, but there's also an unofficial installer you could try: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
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Simple way to install package using Nix on macOS?
I've installed Nix on macOS using nix-installer. Now I can start a temporary nix shell using nix-shell -p git direnv as an example, but I need both of these packages "globally" outside of a nix-shell. How do I do this on macos?
nix-portable
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An independent package manager that every hacker deserves
There is also nix-portable (https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable), which is basically a drop-in replacement for normal nix that does everything required for no-root operation by itself when needed. Just put the single binary in your PATH and it's ready.
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Docker's deleting Open Source images and here's what you need to know
level (/nix/store/)
Yes, for cache hits to happen it has to be this way as far as I remember.
There is a project called nix-portable though that I've seen some HPC users report success with:
https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
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The Determinate Nix Installer
Great work Graham and team, I'll be switching to it on OSX.
I wonder if you took a look at some of the modifications done by portable-nix (https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable), most important ones being:
a) Allowing user to choose the location of the nix folder (for example $HOME/.nix) by using bwrap or proot
- is it possible to install the nix package manager with no root privleges?
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Day 15 with silverblue, loving how rock stable the whole system feels! Exactly the kind of distro i've always wanted.
you can install it and forget about it. yeah the major downside is that you need to disable selinux unless you use nix portable.
- I found this
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I made a nix-portable integration for direnv for my friend who doesn't want to install nix on his machine 😈
Yeah sadly nix-portable doesn't support macOS because of missing kernel features. They are also thinking about docker fallback though: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable/issues/23 🤔😋
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Introducing Riff, a Nix-based tool for automatically providing external dependencies to Rust projects
There is this: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable but I agree we need an official solution
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We want to make Nix better
Not entirely true, there are many ways in which you can use a custom location and still take advantage of the binary cache. You can do it with chroot, file system namespaces, bind mounts and so on. There's also a nice user friendly tool that does exactly this [1].
[1]: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
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Nix Development Container
This is cool! In a similar vein, it's worth mentioning nix-portable is a thing. Same idea of containerization except it avoids docker. https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
What are some alternatives?
nix-with-selinux - this project has moved to a new repo. click the link below
dream2nix - Simplified nix packaging for various programming language ecosystems [maintainer=@DavHau]
nixos-config - Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨
arion-compose - Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
noTunes - A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching.
nix-gaming - Gaming on Nix
nix-installers - Nix installers for legacy distributions (rpm & deb & pacman) [maintainer=@adisbladis]
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
leopard.sh - Package managers for PowerPC Macs running OS X Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4), written in Bash 😱
bob - Bob is a high-level build tool for multi-language projects.
dotfiles - Nix-managed dotfiles for macOS and WSL
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS