A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
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On Linux a user can go through all the way through the multi-user install and find out at the end that they now have to manually configure their init system to launch the nix daemon. I suspect that for a significant number of users this is not what they wanted. They might prefer a single-user install. Now they have to manually uninstall nix before they can go through the single-user install. This introduces a confirmation dialog before the install in that specific situation to make sure that they want to proceed. See also: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4999#issuecomment-1064188080 This closes #4999 but rejecting it and closing that issue anyways would also be valid. |
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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
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.
Additional Resources
- Nix manual
- Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
- NixOS Discourse
- Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
- IRC - #nixos on libera.chat
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.