Installing NixOS behind corporate proxy

nixos-install.md

In order to install NixOS behind corporate proxy do the usual stuff but before running nixos-install set this environment variable:

export CURL_NIX_FLAGS="-x http://user:password@proxy:port/"

In addition in case you have ties to cloning from GitHub (like vim plugins), you should export proxy related variables:

export HTTP_PROXY=http://user:password@proxy:port/
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://user:password@proxy:port/
export http_proxy=http://user:password@proxy:port/
export https_proxy=http://user:password@proxy:port/

After having stack setup --nix run, consider adding following into your ~/.stack/config.yaml file:

nix:

  # false by default. Must be present and set to `true` to enable Nix.
  # You can set set it in your `$HOME/.stack/config.yaml` to enable
  # Nix for all your projects without having to repeat it
  enable: true

  # true by default. Tells Nix whether to run in a pure shell or not.
  #pure: true

  # Empty by default. The list of packages you want to be
  # available in the nix-shell at build time (with `stack
  # build`) and run time (with `stack exec`).
  packages: [zlib]

  # Unset by default. You cannot set this option if `packages:`
  # is already present and not empty.
  #shell-file: shell.nix

  # A list of strings, empty by default. Additional options that
  # will be passed verbatim to the `nix-shell` command.
  #nix-shell-options: []

  # A list of strings, empty by default, such as
  # `[nixpkgs=/my/local/nixpkgs/clone]` that will be used to override
  # NIX_PATH.
  #path: []

  # false by default. Whether to add your nix dependencies as nix garbage
  # collection roots. This way, calling nix-collect-garbage will not remove
  # those packages from the nix store, saving you some time when running
  # stack build again with nix support activated.
  # This creates a `nix-gc-symlinks` directory in the project `.stack-work`.
  # To revert that, just delete this `nix-gc-symlinks` directory.
  #add-gc-roots: false