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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch-installing-binary">
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<title>Installing a Binary Distribution</title>
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<para>If you are using Linux or Mac OS X, the easiest way to install
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Nix is to run the following command:
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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, e.g.:
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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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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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You can also get builds of the latest development release from our
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<link
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xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/release/latest-finished#tabs-constituents">continuous
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build system</link>.</para>
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<para>For Fedora, RPM packages are available. These can be installed
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or upgraded using <command>rpm -U</command>. For example,
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<screen>
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$ rpm -U nix-1.8-1.i386.rpm</screen>
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</para>
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<para>For Debian and Ubuntu, you can download a Deb package and
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install it like this:
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<screen>
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$ dpkg -i nix_1.8-1_amd64.deb</screen>
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</para>
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<para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X and other Linux
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distributions, you can download a binary tarball that contains Nix and
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all its dependencies. (This is what the install script at
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<uri>https://nixos.org/nix/install</uri> uses.) You should unpack it
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somewhere (e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and then run the script
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named <command>install</command> inside the binary tarball:
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<screen>
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alice$ cd /tmp
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alice$ tar xfj nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
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alice$ cd nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin
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alice$ ./install
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</screen>
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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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<command>dpkg -r nix</command> on RPM- and Dpkg-based systems,
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respectively. After this you should manually remove the Nix store and
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other auxiliary data, if desired:
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<screen>
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$ rm -rf /nix</screen>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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