alois31/lix
0
0
Fork 0
forked from lix-project/lix
Code Pull requests Activity

Update installation section

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Eelco Dolstra 2014-11-24 15:34:17 +01:00
parent 103e4e43cc
commit 215745415e
3 changed files with 18 additions and 17 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

25
doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml
View file

@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
<title>Installing a Binary Distribution</title>
<para>The easiest way to install Nix is to run the following command:
<para>If you are using Linux or Mac OS X, the easiest way to install
Nix is to run the following command:
<screen>
$ bash &lt;(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install)
@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ run this under your usual user account, <emphasis>not</emphasis> as
root. The script will invoke <command>sudo</command> to create
<filename>/nix</filename> if it doesn’t already exist. If you don’t
have <command>sudo</command>, you should manually create
<command>/nix</command> first as root:
<command>/nix</command> first as root, e.g.:
<screen>
$ mkdir /nix
@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ build system</link>.</para>
or upgraded using <command>rpm -U</command>. For example,
<screen>
$ rpm -U nix-1.7-1.i386.rpm</screen>
$ rpm -U nix-1.8-1.i386.rpm</screen>
</para>
@ -48,21 +49,21 @@ $ rpm -U nix-1.7-1.i386.rpm</screen>
install it like this:
<screen>
$ dpkg -i nix_1.7-1_amd64.deb</screen>
$ dpkg -i nix_1.8-1_amd64.deb</screen>
</para>
<para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD and
other Linux distributions, you can download a binary tarball that
contains Nix and all its dependencies. (This is what the install
script at <uri>https://nixos.org/nix/install</uri> uses.) You should
unpack it somewhere (e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and then run
the script named <command>install</command> inside the binary tarball:
<para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X and other Linux
distributions, you can download a binary tarball that contains Nix and
all its dependencies. (This is what the install script at
<uri>https://nixos.org/nix/install</uri> uses.) You should unpack it
somewhere (e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and then run the script
named <command>install</command> inside the binary tarball:
<screen>
alice$ cd /tmp
alice$ tar xfj nix-1.7-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
alice$ cd nix-1.7-x86_64-darwin
alice$ tar xfj nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
alice$ cd nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin
alice$ ./install
</screen>

4
doc/manual/installation/supported-platforms.xml
View file

@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
</para>
<para>Nix is pretty portable, so it should work on most other Unix
platforms as well.</para>
<para>Nix is fairly portable, so it should work on most platforms that
support POSIX threads and have a C++11 compiler.</para>
</chapter>

4
doc/manual/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.xml
View file

@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
<title>Troubleshooting</title>
<para>This section provides solutions for some common problems. See
the <link xlink:href="http://bugs.strategoxt.org/browse/NIX">Nix
bug tracker</link> for a list of currently known issues.</para>
the <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues">Nix bug
tracker</link> for a list of currently known issues.</para>
<xi:include href="collisions-nixenv.xml" />
<xi:include href="links-nix-store.xml" />