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