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| | Unfree software refers to software that has restrictive licensing on modification and/or redistribution. This type of software cannot be freely provided or distributed in an official capacity, which means that unfree software is neither built by [[Hydra]], nor cached on the official [[Binary Cache|binary cache]]. Despite this, Nixpkgs offers a very large collection of unfree software as derivations, however they cannot be used by default without configuring Nixpkgs and opting in to unfree software usage. |
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| === Per-package (Ideal) ===
| | [https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-allow-unfree Nixpkgs manual on allowing unfree packages] |
| This method works for NixOS system level configuration and Home-Manager standalone
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| <syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
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| {lib, ...}: {
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| nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg:
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| builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [
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| # Add additional package names here
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| "hello-unfree"
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| ];
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| }
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| </syntaxhighlight>
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| === For all packages ===
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| This method works for NixOS system level configuration
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| <syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
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| {
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| nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
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| }
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| </syntaxhighlight>
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| The previous method '''should''' work for Home-Manager standalone but is currently broken
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| see: [https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/2942 Home-Manager Issue 2942]
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| the work-around is using:
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| <syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
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| {
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| nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = _: true;
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| }
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| </syntaxhighlight>
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| | | [[Category:Software]] |
| === Command Line ===
| | [[Category:Nixpkgs]] |
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| You won't be able to install or search for an unfree package as a user, unless you explicitly enable it in ''~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix'' (the file and folder may need to be created):
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| <syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
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| {
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| allowUnfree = true;
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| }
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| </syntaxhighlight>
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| === Temporary allowing ===
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| For temporary allowing unfree packages you can set the environment variable ''NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE'', e.g.
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| <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">$ NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix-shell</syntaxhighlight>
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| Note for nix3 commands you need to pass <code>--impure</code> as well
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| === More precision ===
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| For whitelisting '''only specific''' unfree licenses
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| see the [https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-allow-unfree "Installing unfree packages" section]
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| of the Nixpkgs manual.
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| Note that we are not able to test or build unfree software on Hydra
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| due to policy. Most unfree licenses prohibit us from either executing or
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| distributing the software.
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