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<para>TODO</para>
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<para>The sources of the Nix build farm are at <link
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xlink:href='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk'/>.</para>
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xlink:href='https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/release/trunk'/>.</para>
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</section>
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<para>An example build hook can be found in the Nix build farm
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sources: <link
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xlink:href='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk/common/distributed/build-remote.pl'
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xlink:href='https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/release/trunk/common/distributed/build-remote.pl'
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/>. It should be suitable for most purposes, with maybe some minor
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adjustments. It uses <command>ssh</command> and
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<command>rsync</command> to copy the build inputs and outputs and
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<section><title>Obtaining Nix</title>
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<para>The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a <link
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xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/">source distribution</link>. RPMs
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">source distribution</link>. RPMs
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for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora Core are also available.</para>
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<para>Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained
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from its <link
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xlink:href="https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/trunk">Subversion
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xlink:href="https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/trunk">Subversion
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repository</link>. For example, the following command will check out
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the latest revision into a directory called
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<filename>nix</filename>:</para>
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<screen>
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$ svn checkout https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/trunk nix</screen>
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$ svn checkout https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/trunk nix</screen>
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<para>Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <link
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xlink:href="https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/tags">tags
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directory</link> of the repository. If you don't have Subversion, you
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can also download an automatically generated <link
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xlink:href="https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/">compressed
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tar-file</link> of the head revision of the trunk.</para>
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xlink:href="https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/tags">tags
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directory</link> of the repository.</para>
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</section>
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<section><title>Installing from RPMs</title>
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<para>RPM packages of Nix can be downloaded from <link
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xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/" />. These RPMs should work for most
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/" />. These RPMs should work for most
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fairly recent releases of SuSE and Red Hat Linux. They have been
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known to work work on SuSE Linux 8.1 and 9.0, and Red Hat 9.0. In
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fact, it should work on any RPM-based Linux distribution based on
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<para>You can install the latest stable version of Nix through Nix
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itself by subscribing to the channel <link
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xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nix-stable" />,
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/channels/nix-stable" />,
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or the latest unstable version by subscribing to the channel <link
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xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nix-unstable" />.
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/channels/nix-unstable" />.
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You can also do a <link linkend="sec-one-click">one-click
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installation</link> by clicking on the package links at <link
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xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/" />.</para>
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/full-index-nix.html" />.</para>
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</section>
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tied to the Nix Package collection; you could write your own Nix
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expressions based on it, or completely new ones.) You can download
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the latest version from <link
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xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix' />.</para>
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xlink:href='http://nixos.org/releases/full-index-nixpkgs.html' />.</para>
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<para>Assuming that you have downloaded and unpacked a release of Nix
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Packages, you can view the set of available packages in the release:
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containing a <emphasis>manifest</emphasis> describing what binaries
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are available. This URL should correspond to the Nix Packages release
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that you’re using. For instance, if you obtained a release from <link
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xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.6pre1554/' />, then
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you should do:
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xlink:href='http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12pre11712-4lrp7j8x'
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/>, then you should do:
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<screen>
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$ nix-pull http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.6pre1554/MANIFEST</screen>
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$ nix-pull http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12pre11712-4lrp7j8x/MANIFEST</screen>
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If you then issue the installation command, it should start
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downloading binaries from <systemitem
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class='fqdomainname'>nix.cs.uu.nl</systemitem>, instead of building
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class='fqdomainname'>nixos.org</systemitem>, instead of building
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them from source. This might still take a while since all
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dependencies must be downloaded, but on a reasonably fast connection
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such as an DSL line it’s on the order of a few minutes.</para>
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<command>nix-channel --add</command>, e.g.,
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<screen>
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$ nix-channel --add http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
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$ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
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subscribes you to a channel that always contains that latest version
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of the Nix Packages collection. (Instead of
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<para>Often, when you want to install a specific package (e.g., from
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the <link
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xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-unstable-latest/">Nix
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Packages collection</link> or from our <link
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xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/'>release server</link>),
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subscribing to a channel is a bit cumbersome. And channels don’t help
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you at all if you want to install an older version of a package than
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the one provided by the current contents of the channel, or a package
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that has been removed from the channel. That’s when
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<emphasis>one-click installs</emphasis> come in handy: you can just go
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to the web page that contains the package, click on it, and it will be
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installed with all the necessary dependencies.</para>
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable/">Nix
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Packages collection</link>), subscribing to a channel is a bit
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cumbersome. And channels don’t help you at all if you want to install
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an older version of a package than the one provided by the current
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contents of the channel, or a package that has been removed from the
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channel. That’s when <emphasis>one-click installs</emphasis> come in
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handy: you can just go to the web page that contains the package,
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click on it, and it will be installed with all the necessary
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dependencies.</para>
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<para>For instance, you can go to <link
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xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-unstable-latest/" />
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— or to any older release of Nix Packages — and click on any link for
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable/" /> —
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or to any older release of Nix Packages — and click on any link for
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the individual packages for your platform (say, <link
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xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.10pre6622/pkgs/subversion-1.4.0-i686-linux.nixpkg'><literal>subversion-1.4.0</literal>
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for <literal>i686-linux</literal></link>). The first time you do
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xlink:href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>RFC 2396</link>
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can be written <emphasis>as is</emphasis>, without quotes. For
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instance, the string
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<literal>"https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nix-trunk.tar.bz2"</literal>
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<literal>"http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2"</literal>
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can also be written as
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<literal>https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nix-trunk.tar.bz2</literal>.</para>
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<literal>http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2</literal>.</para>
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