Nix

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.

Additional Resources

• Nix manual
• Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
• NixOS Discourse
• Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
• IRC - #nixos on libera.chat

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.