nixos-shell
Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell (by Mic92)
NUR
Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92] (by nix-community)
| nixos-shell | NUR | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 24 | |
| 564 | 1,152 | |
| - | 2.6% | |
| 6.1 | 9.1 | |
| about 1 month ago | 3 days ago | |
| Nix | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nixos-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.
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Using NixOS as a Hypervisor for a k3s Cluster in Homelab, can I define the VMs in Nix config?
Just found this: https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-shell
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Manage libvirt's XMLs with Nix?
There is nixos-shell, but I'm thinking about Windows VM's mostly.
- Headless QEMU virtual machines based on Nix
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NixOS 21.05 Released
>It doesn't work so well for I borrowed my coworker's computer for 5 minutes and want to use my own Vim configuration
You could use something like nixos-shell[1] to spin up a headless VM of your machine into your current shell.
[1]https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-shell
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How do you enter the NixOS docker container?
as mentioned, the Nix docker container isnt a full NixOS system, it's just the nix package manager. If you want to try a quick full NixOS setup I really like https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-shell . It spawns a lightweight NixOS vm in the current shell. No qemu or kvm setup or knowledge required.
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Way to install apps in their own FHS environment.
For testing stuff you can also use nixos-shell
NUR
Posts with mentions or reviews of NUR.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-20.
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Couple of noob questions
So first, I'm a bit confused about AUR. I'm not aware of what you're describing. I heard about AUR-like repo for Nix (called NUR https://github.com/nix-community/NUR).
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Adding extensions to firefox using home manager
You need to use nur
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How to install NordVPN onto NixOS
Hi, I'm the author of the PR :) I uploaded it to NUR precisely so that it would be available sooner. However, as I wrote in the thread yesterday, as of this PR one of the components the package was relying on was deprecated. I'm still trying to make it work again using the new buildFHSEnv. However, if you're running 22.11 or haven't updated your local version of nixpkgs beyond that PR, it should still work.
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New BFF
Apart from nixpkgs having many packages, there is also NUR which has even more stuff.
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Using a flake from a GitHub repo
You might also want to publish your sarc utility on NUR, https://nur.nix-community.org/
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NixOS causes an error while booting
nur = import (builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/nix-community/NUR/archive/master.tar.gz") {
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Is there NO alternative to the aur?
Nix also has the NUR. I have never needed to use it, while when I used arch I had many AUR packages.
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Anyone figure out how to apply nvidia-patch in nixos?
Follow the NUR installation instructions and it should be in pkgs.nur.repos.arc.packages.nvidia-patch.
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Best practices for organizing code repository for multiple machines? What about deployment?
As for the community repo, there's nur but only 120 people use it.. I think the reason nixpkgs is so big is that the community is pretty accepting of accepting loads of different packages.
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Can one self host a nix package repo?
Some common options for the first: - your own git repo - your own flake (a specially constructed and easy to consume git repo) - something like NUR
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nixos-shell and NUR you can also consider the following projects:
nix-darwin - nix modules for darwin
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nixos-fhs-compat - LSB&FHS compatibility for NixOS. Intended for containers and VMs.
nixos-search - Search NixOS packages and options
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]
emacs-overlay - Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]
nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!
runix
flake-utils-plus - Use Nix flakes without any fluff.