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<section><title>Installing a binary distribution</title>
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<section><title>Installing a binary distribution</title>
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<para>The easiest way to install Nix is to use a binary package.
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<para>The easiest way to install Nix is to run the following:
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<screen>
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$ bash <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install)
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</screen>
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This will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that
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<filename>/nix</filename> is owned by the invoking user. You should
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run this under your usual user account, <emphasis>not</emphasis> as
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root. The script will invoke <command>sudo</command> to create
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<filename>/nix</filename> if it doesn’t already exist. If you don’t
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have <command>sudo</command>, you should manually create
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<command>/nix</command> first as root:
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<screen>
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$ mkdir /nix
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$ chown alice /nix
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</screen>
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</para>
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<para>You can also manually download and install a binary package.
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Binary packages of the latest stable release are available for Fedora,
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Binary packages of the latest stable release are available for Fedora,
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Debian, Ubuntu, Mac OS X and various other systems from the <link
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Debian, Ubuntu, Mac OS X and various other systems from the <link
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nix/download.html">Nix homepage</link>.
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nix/download.html">Nix homepage</link>.
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or upgraded using <command>rpm -U</command>. For example,
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or upgraded using <command>rpm -U</command>. For example,
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$ rpm -U nix-1.0-1.i386.rpm</screen>
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$ rpm -U nix-1.7-1.i386.rpm</screen>
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</para>
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</para>
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install it like this:
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install it like this:
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$ dpkg -i nix_1.0-1_amd64.deb</screen>
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$ dpkg -i nix_1.7-1_amd64.deb</screen>
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD and
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<para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD and
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other Linux distributions, you can download a binary tarball. It
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other Linux distributions, you can download a binary tarball that
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contains Nix and all its dependencies. You should unpack it somewhere
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contains Nix and all its dependencies. (This is what the install
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(e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and then run the script named
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script at <uri>https://nixos.org/nix/install</uri> uses.) You should
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<command>install</command> inside the binary tarball:
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unpack it somewhere (e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and then run
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the script named <command>install</command> inside the binary tarball:
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<screen>
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<screen>
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alice$ cd /tmp
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alice$ cd /tmp
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alice$ tar xfj nix-1.1-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
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alice$ tar xfj nix-1.7-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
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alice$ cd nix-1.1-x86_64-darwin
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alice$ cd nix-1.7-x86_64-darwin
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alice$ ./install
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alice$ ./install
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</screen>
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</screen>
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You should run this under your usual user account,
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<emphasis>not</emphasis> as root. The script will invoke
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<command>sudo</command> to create <filename>/nix</filename> if it
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doesn’t already exist. If you don’t have <command>sudo</command>, you
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should manually create <command>/nix</command> first as root:
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<screen>
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$ mkdir /nix
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$ chown alice /nix
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</screen>
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>Nix can be uninstalled using <command>rpm -e nix</command> or
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<para>Nix can be uninstalled using <command>rpm -e nix</command> or
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<listitem><para>GNU Make.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>GNU Make.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>A fairly recent version of GCC/G++. Version 2.95
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<listitem><para>A version of GCC or Clang that supports C++11.</para></listitem>
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and higher should work. Clang will also work.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Perl 5.8 or higher.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Perl 5.8 or higher.</para></listitem>
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