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Elaborate a bit on the Nix's concept of package versioning
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|Install a particular version of a package | |Install a particular version of a package | ||
|apt-get install package=version | |<syntaxhighlight lang="console">$ apt-get install package=version</syntaxhighlight> | ||
|Nix | |Although Nix on its own doesn't understand the concept of package versioning, you can install and play with older (or newer!) software via https://nixos.wiki/wiki/FAQ/Pinning_Nixpkgs with https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions. | ||
For instance, to launch an older version of Vim you could use: | |||
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$ nix-shell \ | |||
-p vim \ | |||
-I nixpkgs=\https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/4bba6650a6a5a2009e25bdeed8c1e871601a9bfb.tar.gz | |||
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