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Martin Schwaighofer 4f29cf1a1d installer: ask for confirmation on multi-user install without systemd
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.
2022-04-08 11:23:54 +02:00
.github Use the nix command (and flakes) in the CI 2022-01-26 16:41:37 +01:00
config
contrib
doc/manual Merge pull request #6363 from thufschmitt/definition-list-in-nix.conf-manual 2022-04-05 17:32:48 +02:00
m4
maintainers Integrate push-docker.sh into the release script 2022-02-18 13:58:01 +01:00
misc nix-daemon.service: require mounts for /nix/var/nix/db 2022-03-29 21:05:57 -04:00
mk mk/run_test.sh: Add missing backslash 2022-03-02 21:36:46 +01:00
perl Remove std::string alias (for real this time) 2022-02-25 16:13:02 +01:00
scripts installer: ask for confirmation on multi-user install without systemd 2022-04-08 11:23:54 +02:00
src Fix empty 'nix copy' error message 2022-04-06 12:43:53 +02:00
tests fetchClosure: Don't allow URL query parameters 2022-04-06 11:52:51 +02:00
.dir-locals.el
.editorconfig
.gitignore Gitignore the generated systemd nix-daemon conf file 2022-03-30 11:43:08 +02:00
.version Bump version 2022-03-07 20:12:35 +01:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff Fix leaking pthread_attr_t 2021-11-03 22:54:16 +01:00
bootstrap.sh
configure.ac Require lowdown 0.9.0 2022-02-01 10:44:19 +01:00
COPYING
default.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00
docker.nix docker: var/tmp make add -p option to mkdir to also create parent dirs 2022-01-15 14:11:37 +01:00
flake.lock flake.lock: Update 2022-04-05 16:41:40 +02:00
flake.nix add sourcehut integration test 2022-02-23 11:58:09 -03:00
local.mk
Makefile Stop vendoring nlohmann_json 2022-01-26 11:50:53 +01:00
Makefile.config.in use LOWDOWN_LIBS variable 2022-01-30 20:59:58 +02:00
precompiled-headers.h
README.md
shell.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

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.