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<title>Installing a Binary Distribution</title>
<para>The easiest way to install Nix is to run the following command:
<para>If you are using Linux or Mac OS X, the easiest way to install
Nix is to run the following command:
<screen>
$ bash &lt;(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install)
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root. The script will invoke <command>sudo</command> to create
<filename>/nix</filename> if it doesnt already exist. If you dont
have <command>sudo</command>, you should manually create
<command>/nix</command> first as root:
<command>/nix</command> first as root, e.g.:
<screen>
$ mkdir /nix
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or upgraded using <command>rpm -U</command>. For example,
<screen>
$ rpm -U nix-1.7-1.i386.rpm</screen>
$ rpm -U nix-1.8-1.i386.rpm</screen>
</para>
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install it like this:
<screen>
$ dpkg -i nix_1.7-1_amd64.deb</screen>
$ dpkg -i nix_1.8-1_amd64.deb</screen>
</para>
<para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD and
other Linux distributions, you can download a binary tarball 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:
<para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X and 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-1.7-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
alice$ cd nix-1.7-x86_64-darwin
alice$ tar xfj nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
alice$ cd nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin
alice$ ./install
</screen>
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</para>
</chapter>
</chapter>

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</para>
<para>Nix is pretty portable, so it should work on most other Unix
platforms as well.</para>
<para>Nix is fairly portable, so it should work on most platforms that
support POSIX threads and have a C++11 compiler.</para>
</chapter>

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<title>Troubleshooting</title>
<para>This section provides solutions for some common problems. See
the <link xlink:href="http://bugs.strategoxt.org/browse/NIX">Nix
bug tracker</link> for a list of currently known issues.</para>
the <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues">Nix bug
tracker</link> for a list of currently known issues.</para>
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