Nix Installation Guide: Difference between revisions

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 Nix is hard to build by hand, but you can still use vanilla nix without concurrent use, so you can install nix with a NFS store as follows:
 * Install nix with the vanilla binary installer
-* Create a file <code>nfs-nix.nix</code>:
+* Create a file <code>~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix</code> as follows, and place the patch above alongside it.
 <syntaxHighlight lang="nix">
-with import <nixpkgs> {};
+{
-nix.overrideAttrs (old: {
+        packageOverrides = pkgs: {
-patches = (old.patch or []) ++ [ ./nfs.patch ];
+                nix = pkgs.nix.overrideAttrs (old: {
-# if you are in a hurry
+                                patches = (old.patches or []) ++ [ ./nfs.patch ];
-doInstallCheck = false;
+                       });
-})
+        };
+}
 </syntaxHighlight>
-* Run <code>nix-env -if ./nfs-nix.nix</code>
+* Run <code>nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix</code> to compile and install the new, patched nix.
 * From then on, you can use nix concurrently without risk of corrupting the sqlite database.