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The host machine has to be prepared for the build process.
The host machine has to be prepared for the build process.


In the setting the author of this article used, the host machine was a CentOS 7 amd64 machine running in vmware.
In the evaluation for this article, a CentOS 7 amd64 machine running in vmware was used.
On the machine, the nix package manager was installed via the `curl->sh` provided on the nixos.org website.
On the machine, the nix package manager was installed via <code><nowiki>curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh</nowiki></code> as suggested on https://nixos.org/nix/ > "Get Nix".


The configuration file `/etc/nix/nix.conf` was edited for the following contents:
The configuration file <code>/etc/nix/nix.conf</code> was edited for the following contents:
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sandbox = false
sandbox = false
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== How to build a deb/rpm with nixpkgs ==
== How to build a deb/rpm with nixpkgs ==


The author used a simple approach:
The following approach can be used to try out building a <code>.deb</code> package with nixpkgs:


1. Clone the official nixpkgs repository into `~/nixpkgs`
# Clone the official nixpkgs repository into <code>~/nixpkgs</code>
2. Add a file to the nixpkgs repository `./deb.nix` with the following contents:
# Add a file to the nixpkgs repository <code>./deb.nix</code> with the following contents:


(In this scenario, ncurses was built for testing the whole approach)
(In this scenario, ncurses was built for testing the whole approach)
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   args = {
   args = {
     diskImage = vm;
     diskImage = vm;
    diskImageFormat = "qcow2";
     src      = pkgs.ncurses.src;
     src      = pkgs.ncurses.src;
     name      = "ncurses-deb";
     name      = "ncurses-deb";
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and then this file was called: `nix-build ./deb.nix`.
and then this file was called: <code>nix-build ./deb.nix</code>.


This loads the relevant disk images from the channel mirror and spins up the Qemu VM to build the package.
This loads the relevant disk images from the channel mirror and spins up the Qemu VM to build the package.
The deb file (in this case, as we're building a deb with the expression from above) is located in ./result/debs/ after a successful build.
The deb file (in this case, as we're building a deb with the expression from above) is located in ./result/debs/ after a successful build.
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