*nix is a general term to refer to the whole family of Unices, to the operating systems that follow the POSIX 1 standard. Ruby is a programming language, there's no general relationship between the two.

Dec 1, 2023 · I'm trying to enable allow "unfree" packages, either globally or per-package, when using MyNixOS (excellent Flake configuration app for Nix) with Nix Flakes on Mac OS. When trying to inst...

Dec 17, 2022 · Which version of nix are you running? Did you enable the flakes feature in a config file, such as /etc/nix/nix.conf (through configuration.nix for example) or ~/.config/nix/nix.conf? You can …

Mar 24, 2015 · The standard nix binaries look in for everything. The same thing is true for other distributions, where you cannot (in general) take a binary package and install it in an arbitrary directory.

Dec 9, 2022 · 2. nix-shell --pure shell.nix This puts the PostgreSQL package in the /nix/store, starts and initializes the database cluster (with pg_ctl start and initdb, respectively). The relevant lines in the …

Mar 18, 2024 · I am running NixOS on WSL I use nix version nix 2.18.1 I run nix develop in the directory containing flake.nix that looks like that: { description = "Python environment with ollama";

Jun 29, 2019 · as an aside if someone knows how to install Node.js version 11 or 12 on nixos that'd be great.

The reason its broken NixOS is a declarative operating system. This means that directories like /etc live inside the read-only /nix/store directory. Only the nix-daemon is allowed to mount the nix-store as …

Oct 18, 2023 · Writing code with Nix-the-language is definitely on-topic here. Installation, probably not (as installing Nix is not a task unique to software development); you'd likely do better at …

Nov 15, 2023 · Where is this impurity coming from? I know nothing about nix-shell or vscode, but you can tell where the GLIBC_2.38 reference is coming from by tracing which library provides the …