Nix Package Manager

Intro

Yet again my good friend and Linux enthusiast ChriTitus has brought another cool Package Manager this time called #Nix.

Seems to be cool and easy to Install and use. Here’s the written guide ported directly from his ChrisTitusTech site..

Installation

Install Nix using this curl command :

curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Source

Note: Recommend multi-user install if it prompts for it.

Finding Packages

We recommend using their WebStore to find packages to install, but make sure to click the “unstable” button as NixOS stable is a Linux Distribution few use.

Or from terminal you can list all packages with nix-env -qaP then just grep what you are looking for.

Example: nix-env -qaP | grep hugo

Help and Manual

You can get more details with man nix or man nix-env

Troubleshooting

Programs not showing up in start menu

NIX stores all the .desktop files for the programs it installs @ /home/$USER/.nix-profile/share/applications/ and a simple symlink will fix them not showing up in your start menu.

ln -s /home/$USER/.nix-profile/share/applications/* /home/$USER/.local/share/applications/

Enjoy :heart: