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I've downloaded a binary, but I can't run it, what can I do?

Binaries normally do not work out of the box when you download them because they normally just assume that libraries can be found in hardcoded paths such as /lib. However this assumption is incorrect on NixOS systems due to the inner workings of nix - there is no default path, everything gets set to the corresponding version on compile time.