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Adam Joseph a5be5e0120 doc/manual: define {local,remote} store, binary cache, substituter Nix veterans intuitively know what the following terms mean. They are used in several places in the nix documentation, but never defined: - local store - remote store - binary cache - substituter In particular, I found the last two terms to be confusingly similar. Let's give definitions for them.		2022-08-04 14:07:06 -07:00
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README.md

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

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.