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@ -42,7 +42,28 @@ platforms as well.</para>
<section><title>Installing a binary distribution</title>
<para>The easiest way to install Nix is to use a binary package.
<para>The easiest way to install Nix is to run the following:
<screen>
$ bash &lt;(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install)
</screen>
This will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that
<filename>/nix</filename> is owned by the invoking user. You should
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:
<screen>
$ mkdir /nix
$ chown alice /nix
</screen>
</para>
<para>You can also manually download and install a binary package.
Binary packages of the latest stable release are available for Fedora,
Debian, Ubuntu, Mac OS X and various other systems from the <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nix/download.html">Nix homepage</link>.
@ -55,7 +76,7 @@ build system</link>.</para>
or upgraded using <command>rpm -U</command>. For example,
<screen>
$ rpm -U nix-1.0-1.i386.rpm</screen>
$ rpm -U nix-1.7-1.i386.rpm</screen>
</para>
@ -63,34 +84,24 @@ $ rpm -U nix-1.0-1.i386.rpm</screen>
install it like this:
<screen>
$ dpkg -i nix_1.0-1_amd64.deb</screen>
$ dpkg -i nix_1.7-1_amd64.deb</screen>
</para>
<para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD and
other Linux distributions, you can download a binary tarball. It
contains Nix and all its dependencies. You should unpack it somewhere
(e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and then run the script named
<command>install</command> inside the binary tarball:
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-1.1-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
alice$ cd nix-1.1-x86_64-darwin
alice$ tar xfj nix-1.7-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
alice$ cd nix-1.7-x86_64-darwin
alice$ ./install
</screen>
You should 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:
<screen>
$ mkdir /nix
$ chown alice /nix
</screen>
</para>
<para>Nix can be uninstalled using <command>rpm -e nix</command> or
@ -117,8 +128,7 @@ a source distribution.</para>
<listitem><para>GNU Make.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A fairly recent version of GCC/G++. Version 2.95
and higher should work. Clang will also work.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A version of GCC or Clang that supports C++11.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Perl 5.8 or higher.</para></listitem>