nix
A powerful package manager that makes package management reliable, reproducible, and declarative.
nix
is experimental and requires enabling experimental features. For a classic, stable interface, see tldr nix classic
.
Some subcommands such as build
, develop
, flake
, registry
, profile
, search
, repl
, store
, edit
, why-depends
, etc. have their own usage documentation.
More information: https://nixos.org/manual/nix.
- Enable the
nix
command:
mkdir -p ~/.config/nix; echo 'experimental-features = nix-command flakes' > ~/.config/nix/nix.conf
- Search for a package in nixpkgs via its name or description:
nix search nixpkgs
search_term
- Start a shell with the specified packages from nixpkgs available:
nix shell
nixpkgs#pkg1 nixpkgs#pkg2 nixpkgs#pkg3 …
- Install some packages from nixpkgs permanently:
nix profile install
nixpkgs#pkg1 nixpkgs#pkg2 nixpkgs#pkg3 …
- Remove unused paths from Nix store to free up space:
nix store gc
- Start an interactive environment for evaluating Nix expressions:
nix repl
- Display help for a specific subcommand:
nix help
subcommand