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Nix installation and running on macOS Catalina (10.15)
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First Installation

Following this known issue:

  1. Run: 
    echo 'nix' | sudo tee -a /etc/synthetic.conf
  2. Reboot
  3. Run: 
    sudo diskutil apfs addVolume disk1 APFSX Nix -mountpoint /nix
sudo diskutil enableOwnership /nix
sudo chflags hidden /nix
echo "LABEL=Nix /nix apfs rw" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

After Reboot

TODO Double-check that.

Again, following this related issue, after each reboot, run:

launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist && launchctl start org.nixos.nix-daemon
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