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Nix Manual

Nix is a package manager which comes in a form of many command line tools. Packages that Nix can build are defined with the Nix Expression Language.

• Installation
• Basic package management
• Main command line tools:
  • nix-env — manipulate or query Nix user environments
  • nix-build — build a Nix expression
  • nix-shell — start an interactive shell based on a Nix expression
  • nix-store — manipulate or query the Nix store
  • nix-channel - keep Nix expressions up to date
• Nix expression language
  • Built-in functions
  • Nixpkgs Library Functions
  • Debugging Nix Expressions

Full Nix Manual

Nixpkgs Manual

The Nix Packages collection (Nixpkgs) is a set of thousands of packages for the Nix package manager and NixOS Linux distribution.

• Configure nixpkgs
• Customize packages (override packages)
• Extend nixpkgs (via overlays)
• Adding a package to nixpkgs
  • The Standard Environment
  • Fetching sources
  • Building images:
    * Docker -Snap -AppImage -OCI - …
• Integrate Nix with programming languages:
  * Javascript (Node) -Python -Ruby -Java -Go -Rust - R -Haskell -Elm - BEAM Languages (Erlang, Elixir, LFE) - Lua- Idris -Coq -Perl -OCaml -…
• Integrate Nix with frameworks:
  * Android -IOS -Titanium - Tex Live -Qt - …
• Configure your editor with Nix:
  * Vim -Emacs -Eclipse -Kakoune - …
• Contributing to Nixpkgs

Full Nixpkgs Manual

Other learning resources

The Nix hour

A weekly beginner-oriented interactive video lecture on all things Nix. Running since October 2022.

Watch on Youtube

NixOS Wiki

The official wiki for Nix and NixOS (wiki.nixos.org); user contributions welcome!

Check the wiki

Nix Pills

A low-level tutorial on building software packages with Nix, showing in detail how Nixpkgs is constructed.

Take the Pills