How do you install packages not in Nixpkgs?

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  • nix-pills

    Careful with Nix Pills if you want to follow along. It is written for a very old version of Nix (14.xx) and things will start breaking in a major way around chapter 12 when you start building graphviz. Since the future chapters keep enhancing the graphviz stuff, you'll most likely be stuck. Definitely check this out before: https://github.com/NixOS/nix-pills/issues/107

  • nixos

    My NixOS Configurations

    Here are my custom packages, along with everything else: https://github.com/pinpox/nixos/tree/main/packages

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • crate2nix

    rebuild only changed crates in CI with crate2nix and nix

    As for your two applications, they're both written in Rust, and I like https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix as a way to package Rust crates with Nix. BTW, wezterm is already in nixpkgs!

  • xplr

    A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

    u/SkyMarshal you'll happy to know that xplr has been added to nixpkgs.

  • nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

    u/SkyMarshal you'll happy to know that xplr has been added to nixpkgs.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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