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NixOS is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. Its declarative configuration allows reliable system upgrades via several official channels of stability and size.

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First Time NixOS setup help installing basic apps, dependencies, and themes (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: my issues came from copying source .nix configurations for the pig manager, not configurations that I would include on my computer. Finding how to include what where was much easier with search.nixos.org

Hi, I've finally cleansed my system of windows and switched fully into nix. I want to learn this OS the right way, but have ran into some noob troubles. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ideally, these changes are things I would include in my configuration.nix

How to install electrum wallet on nixos? I found this default.nix for electrum and thought it would be as easy as nix-build default.nix but was mistaken. It says " cannot evaluate a function that has an argument without a value ('fetchurl') Nix attempted to evaluate a function as a top level expression" but on a later line that value is inputted to the function (if I understand right)

src = fetchurl { url = "https://download.electrum.org/${version}/Electrum-${version}.tar.gz"; sha256 = "sha256-BxxC1xVKToUjgBo4mEeK9Tdhbd/+doHcTTJsXDtaELg="; };

How to install KVantum Theme Manager? I was following this guide and tried to add gcc/g++ and the x11 package dependencies but I get undefined variables for the x11 libraries. Some recommend using stdenv.mkDerivations but I haven't used that much nix before so I'm not certain if I should be going down that rabbit hole

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you dor addin the edit to the top. It helped me too!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Every time I help another Linux user, I grow one more hair towards my wizard beard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I bet you already look like papa Marx

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll get back to it, I'm pretty sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, going directly from Windows to NixOS is a harsh transition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been running an Ubuntu base for years, but windows kept overwriting the boot loader so I finally cracked. Been wanting to switch to Debian for a while and nix seemed desirable for its functional design paradigm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, you're coming from Ubuntu! That's a much more manageable transition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's gonna be a long transition haha, but I've learned a lot about OSs over the years just using CLI in Ubuntu, I'm looking forward to nix as something I'll struggle with for the next few years haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm finding some details in this stackoverflow question

According to the question's first comment,

Those default arguments get filled in when you're invoked with pkgs.callPackage, but nix-build doesn't do that. –

Charles Duffy Dec 2, 2022 at 16:05

Then one of the answers says:

This worked for me:

nix-build -E 'with import {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}'

Definitely try this more complicated nix-build command.

I don't currently have a NixOS system myself, though, so I'm not really able to test it out. I switched back to Debian because it's more user friendly and I'm not quite ready for NixOS.