PanAeon

Curriculum Vitae

built with nix and LaTeX. source code

suhr

How to use Nix Flakes system wide

There are some articles you want to read first:

• https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-05-25-flakes/
• https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-06-25-eval-cache/
• https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-07-31-nixos-flakes/

Nix Flakes is currently an experimental feature, so this tutorial assumes that you are using the unstable channel.

jtojnar

Nix is a package manager that you can install in parallel with your system package manager on Linux or MacOS. It allows you to effortlesly build any of the thousands of packages defined in the nixpkgs repository or write your own package expressions. Packages in the nixpkgs repository get periodically built by our CI server so the GIMP dependencies will be obtained from binary cache saving you time.

To obtain Nix, you can simply run an installation script, or use your package manager if it is packaged in your distro repositories. Notably, there is a package in Arch’s AUR and Debian Unstable.

The pull request containing changes for the latest changes for GIMP master is NixOS/nixpkgs#67576. I usually update the branch several times a month to point to t

sorki

import Control.Applicative
import Control.Monad
import Control.Concurrent

import Data.String
import Data.Char
import Data.List
import Data.Monoid
import Control.Monad.IO.Class