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<section xml:id="sec-one-click"><title>One-click installs</title>
<para>TODO</para>
<para>Often, when you want to install a specific package (e.g., from
the <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-unstable-latest/">Nix
Packages collection</link> or from our <link
xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/'>release server</link>),
subscribing to a channel is a bit cumbersome. And channels don’t help
you at all if you want to install an older version of a package than
the one provided by the current contents of the channel, or a package
that has been removed from the channel. That’s when
<emphasis>one-click installs</emphasis> come in handy: you can just go
to the web page that contains the package, click on it, and it will be
installed with all the necessary dependencies.</para>
<para>For instance, you can go to <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-unstable-latest/" />
— or to any older release of Nix Packages — and click on any link for
the individual packages for your platform (say, <link
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>
for <literal>i686-linux</literal></link>). The first time you do
this, your browser will ask what to do with
<literal>application/nix-package</literal> files. You should open
them with <filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename>. This
will open a window that asks you to confirm that you want to install
the package. When you answer <literal>Y</literal>, the package and
all its dependencies will be installed. This is a binary deployment
mechanism — you get packages pre-compiled for the selected platform
type.</para>
<para>You can also install <literal>application/nix-package</literal>
files from the command line directly. See <xref
linkend='sec-nix-install-package' /> for details.</para>
</section>