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Installing Nix on Crostini: Difference between revisions
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This Wiki page describes the process required to get up and running on | This Wiki page describes the process required to get up and running on Chrome OS within Crostini. This does not talk about Crouton and assumes you have already installed Nix. [https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#chap-installation Guide to Installation]. | ||
Once you have Nix installed, there are a few things that need to be done. | Once you have Nix installed, there are a few things that need to be done. | ||
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Using [https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/ Home-manager] is pretty straight-forward, and is an easy way to manage Nix and install packages. The documentation on the Github repo is sufficient. | Using [https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/ Home-manager] is pretty straight-forward, and is an easy way to manage Nix and install packages. The documentation on the Github repo is sufficient. | ||
== Registering Applications with | == Registering Applications with Chrome OS == | ||
This feature of Crostini expects .desktop files to be dropped in the appropriate places. (namely somewhere under <code>$XDG_DATA</code>). | This feature of Crostini expects .desktop files to be dropped in the appropriate places. (namely somewhere under <code>$XDG_DATA</code>). | ||
Applications are registered with | Applications are registered with Chrome OS using a service running within the container called ''cros-garcon''. As it is a simple systemd service, we can easily extend it to look in nix-specific locations. | ||
First we extend the service with new environment variables | First we extend the service with new environment variables | ||