nix-search-cli
nixos-search
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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
nixos-search
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Why is the documentation... nowhere to be found?!
For me, https://search.nixos.org/ is a better aid than the wiki. Often the right keyword in the NixOS packages or modules search will lead me right to the obvious and simple answer that I couldn't find elsewhere.
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Nix packages security, safety, and privacy
Does https://search.nixos.org/ pull from nixpkgs, the Nix User Repository, or both?
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What is the difference between:
Just go to search.nixos.org, open the option you would like to see more of, and click on the link behind "Declared in".
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Where to find SAR in the package manager?
I've done a nix-env query, and checked in https://search.nixos.org but can't seem to find any SAR package, nor any google search that gave any hints to see if it might be part of another system utility package...
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My First Impressions of Nix
If you want to install a package, search for it at https://search.nixos.org
The gnome system monitor is gnome.gnome-system-monitor for example https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&show=gnome.g...
- How can I see what options are available for a certain import?
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
search.nixos.org also includes flakes that people PR into the index via GitHub at https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-search/issues
ps: $ nix search exists via experimental flags https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3...
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Thinking about to switch from Fedora Sliverblue to NixOS with following use case…
Idk about ec_sys, I couldn't find it on search.nixos.org, but since it's a kernel module it might just come with the kernel idk.
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How do you quickly browse the source of a flake input
I rarely think to look at flakes by their source, actually. I have a Nixpkgs clone that I jump into for anything super ad-hoc but most of the time I'm just doing REPL, :lf ./. and mashing tab-completion. That's usually to make sure the thing I'm after exists in one of the large package sets like node, vimPlugins, or similar, and that I got the name right - which could probably be answered just as easily with https://search.nixos.org/ .
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How big is the nix store?
search.nixos.org
What are some alternatives?
nixbyexample - Learn nix by example
NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]
buck2-nix - Do not taunt happy fun ball
diffuse - A music player that connects to your cloud/distributed storage.
text - Haskell library for space- and time-efficient operations over Unicode text.
elm-lang.org - Server and client code for the Elm website.
comma - Comma runs software without installing it. [maintainers=@Artturin,@burke,@DavHau]
nixos-config - My NixOS configuration
dateilager - Shared and versioned filesystem manager
dotnix - nix stuff
nixos-config - Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨
manix - A fast CLI documentation searcher for Nix.