forked from lix-project/lix
![]() This PR proposes two changes to the "Upgrading Nix" documentation: * Besides updating `nixpkgs.nix`, we also update `nixpkgs.cacert`, so that the certificates are up-to-date as well. * Add the instructions for multi-user mode on Linux. |
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contrib | ||
corepkgs | ||
doc/manual | ||
m4 | ||
maintainers | ||
misc | ||
mk | ||
nix-rust | ||
perl | ||
scripts | ||
src | ||
tests | ||
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bootstrap.sh | ||
configure.ac | ||
COPYING | ||
local.mk | ||
Makefile | ||
Makefile.config.in | ||
precompiled-headers.h | ||
README.md | ||
release-common.nix | ||
release.nix | ||
shell.nix |
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
Building Nix
You can build Nix using one of the targets provided by release.nix:
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.aarch64-linux
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.x86_64-darwin
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.i686-linux
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.x86_64-linux
Development Environment
You can use the provided shell.nix
to get a working development environment:
$ nix-shell
$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
Additional Resources
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.