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I’m stumbling through my Ubuntu setup and having to add software, but when I want to try something new I run the risk of irrevocably modifying my system and leaving behind artifacts from whatever thing I tried out. So I figured this was a good reason to try out Nix on Ubuntu.
I ran the command mentioned on the [web site]:
sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
Which failed because curl wasn’t installed by default.
So…
sudo apt-get install curl
Wait a while.
sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
Answer a bunch of prompting (mostly hitting enter) and wait a while longer.
I launched gajim as my first test.
nix-shell -p gajim --run gajim
It downloaded for a really long time. Then popped up.
That didn’t install it though. I think I can just make a configuration.nix file and put it somewhere but I have to read on that.
In the mean-time, this will install software:
nix-env --install gajim
The --daemon option installs the Multi User NixOS. Which the docs say is harder to uninstall but I don’t know what that means. I’ll probably just wipe the SD card if I need to change the OS in any meaningful way, since it’s a Raspberry Pi.
updated: 2024-08-04 10:04:08
generated: 2024-09-27