hosts (personal):
- Apple Mac Mini M4
- Dell Wyse 5070 Thin Client
- TinyPC
- Apple Mac Air M1
To install Nix on macOS as a multi-user installtion, run this command:
sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon --yesIf you want to configure the OS via Nix, you can install Nix Darwin. For me, I just want to use Nix for managing package and user environment config in home directory
When using nix, we still need some tools before using home-manager, so take a look at shell.nix — it's a bootstrap script to set up those tools.
👆 This adds tools to your shell environment.
nix: gives you the nix CLI.home-manager: useful if you want to runhome-managercommands.git: version control.
They'll be available whenever you run nix develop or nix-shell.
- You can run
nix develop(flake) - Or
nix-shell(legacy)
> openssl version -a> devenv init
> cat devenv.nix
{ pkgs, ... }:
{
packages = [
# pkgs.openssl_1_1
];
languages.python.enable = true;
languages.python.version = "3.9.21";
languages.python.venv.enable = true;
languages.python.poetry.enable = true;
languages.python.poetry.install.enable = true;
} inputs = {
nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-24.11";
nixpkgs-unstable.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
# Some particular revision for installing fd
nixpkgs-fd.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/bf972dc380f36a3bf83db052380e55f0eaa7dcb6";
home-manager = {
url = "github:nix-community/home-manager/release-24.11";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
}; outputs = { nixpkgs, nixpkgs-unstable, home-manager, nixpkgs-fd, ... }:
{
#...
};# configuration.nix
{config, pkgs, ...}: {
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
rsync
];
services.nginx = {
enable = true;
};
}# home.nix
{config, pkgs, ...}: {
home.file.foo.text = "bar";
programs.fish = {
enable = true;
};
}nix-index is a tool to quickly locate the package providing a certain file in nixpkgs. But you need to generate a database locally and run this command to search
# create locally database
> nix run github:nix-community/nix-index#nix-index
# query
> nix run github:nix-community/nix-index#nix-locate -- bin/ipIn another side, nix-index-database provides pre-generated databases if you don't want to generate a database locally.
> nix run github:nix-community/nix-index-database bin/ip- https://mynixos.com/home-manager/options/programs.bash
- https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/blob/main/README.md
- https://home-manager-options.extranix.com/?query=git.&release=relea 5615 se-24.11
- https://unmovedcentre.com/posts/secrets-management/#inputting-nix-secrets-to-nix-config
- https://home-manager-options.extranix.com/
- https://mplanchard.com/posts/installing-a-specific-version-of-a-package-with-nix.html