Nix

This project requires nix with the experimental flakes feature enabled.

Recommended reads

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nix#Installation
• https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Flakes#Setup
• https://nixos.org/download/

Commands tested on

• Ubuntu Server 25.04

Installation

From your package manager

Arch

pacman -Syu nix

From installer

nixos.org

Fetch the installer

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSfL \
    https://nixos.org/nix/install -o nix-install.sh

Read the script before executing it

less nix-install.sh

Give execute permission

chmod +x nix-install.sh

Do the installation (single-user)

./nix-install.sh --no-daemon

Source this file to update your PATH (or just open a new terminal)

. ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh

Enable experimental features

Add this to ~/.config/nix/nix.conf

experimental-features = nix-command flakes

$ mkdir -p ~/.config/nix
$ echo 'experimental-features = nix-command flakes' >> ~/.config/nix/nix.conf

Check

If everything went right, this should work

$ nix run nixpkgs#hello
Hello, world!