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There are a different ways to search for a package name in the nix package manager. | There are a different ways to search for a package name in the nix package manager. | ||
** easy to use | == The NixOS packages search engine == | ||
** requires | |||
There is a website that let you search for Nix packages and NixOS options at https://search.nixos.org/ | |||
** very slow | |||
* pros | |||
** it's easy to use | |||
** allow filters | |||
* cons | |||
** it requires Internet | |||
== Using the nix-env command == | |||
It's possible to search for a package using <code>nix-env -qaP</code> | |||
* pros | |||
** works offline | |||
* cons | |||
** it's very slow and requires a lot of memory | |||
== Reverse search: searching which package provides a file == | |||
It's possible to use the third party program [https://github.com/bennofs/nix-index nix-index] to find which package provides a given file, this is particularly useful when you are looking for a very specific file but you don't know which package installs it. | |||
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Revision as of 12:24, 4 August 2022
There are a different ways to search for a package name in the nix package manager.
The NixOS packages search engine
There is a website that let you search for Nix packages and NixOS options at https://search.nixos.org/
- pros
- it's easy to use
- allow filters
- cons
- it requires Internet
Using the nix-env command
It's possible to search for a package using nix-env -qaP
- pros
- works offline
- cons
- it's very slow and requires a lot of memory
Reverse search: searching which package provides a file
It's possible to use the third party program nix-index to find which package provides a given file, this is particularly useful when you are looking for a very specific file but you don't know which package installs it.