nix-installer

Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs. (by DeterminateSystems)

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  • Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2025
    https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer I've had good experience with this installer if you have root access. I also installed nix on my work HPC cluster running Ubuntu via nix-portable.
  • Getting started with Nix and Nix Flakes
    5 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2025
    in a terminal and following the prompts the installer asks. You can check Zero-to-Nix's page for more instructions, or the Determinate installer's README for detailed options. This method will work both on Linux and Mac.
  • Nix at level 0 is still awesome
    1 project | dev.to | 29 Dec 2024
    But the one I recommend and I’m using is: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
  • Secret management for the layman
    2 projects | dev.to | 16 Nov 2024
    If you use nix, you can set up a development environment with all the dependencies needed. In my case, I use just and age for this.
  • Show HN: Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Oct 2024
    Thank you, we will! =). I think there is a lot of opportunity here around a cohesive workflow around Nix. That is a big part about what I was consulting on for so many years.

    Maybe check out our demo on our home page: https://determinate.systems/ -- you might like it.

  • A new Debian package helper: debputy
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2024
    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
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2024
  • macOS Sonoma is available today
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
    The Determinate Systems nix installer is quite smooth: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/

    Though it does tend to get clobbered on macOS updates.

  • PackagingCon – a conference only for software package management
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2023
    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-... )

  • Home manager installation - Could not find suitable profile directory
    1 project | /r/Nix | 8 Jun 2023
    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
  • A note from our sponsor - Nutrient
    www.nutrient.io | 16 Feb 2025
    Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries. Learn more →

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