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Some binaries obtained via npm will not work out of the box with NixOS, as they're dynamically linked to things that don't exist in NixOS (for good reason!) | Some binaries obtained via npm will not work out of the box with NixOS, as they're dynamically linked to things that don't exist in NixOS (for good reason!) | ||
They'll typically give some kind of | They'll typically give some kind of <code>ENOENT</code> error. | ||
For example, | For example, <code>npx cypress open</code> might give an error like: | ||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
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</pre> | </pre> | ||
One quick workaround for this is to use | One quick workaround for this is [https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Steam#steam-run to use <code>steam-run</code>] to provide a placeholder FHS environment that *should* work; e.g. for the Cypress example above: | ||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
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-- Cypress opens successfully! | -- Cypress opens successfully! | ||
</pre> | </pre> | ||
(Inspired by [https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-make-nixos-so-easy-that-people-can-be-productive-up-front-without-having-to-first-learn-the-nix-language/5625 this discussion on discourse.nixos.org]) | |||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||