Hi. I'm a Nix newbie. I've got nix-1.3 installed on some systems where I
don't have root access, so everything is built from derivations. I've
ran into this unpleasant situation now where, on all of my systems, the
derivation perl-5.16.2 won't build. This is problematic because it
seems that
Hi. I used nix to install python-2.7.3 on an older Linux system using
Nix. Overall, seems to work fine, except one quirk: the python
interpreter doesn't allow interactive editing or history substitution
(i.e., readline style). But the python-2.7.3 documents suggests it has
this functionality. Does
Hi. I'm trying to build emacs-24.2, but I can't because guile-2.0.7
won't build. One test failed. Personally, I don't care. (Coming from a
Gentoo background, I know that half the packages out there with unit
tests will fail their tests even though the software works fine, which
is why tests are
Hi, I synced to unstable a few minutes ago, and installed evince-2.32.0. It
compiles fine, but cannot read PDFs during runtime. (!) It says that
application/pdf format is not supported. Here is the command line output:
quote:
(process:11057): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C
Hi. I just finished installing emacs-24.2. The graphical (gtk-based)
version starts fine; however, the text in all the menus (including the
tiles) is garbled (more specifically, replaced by empty box characters).
The error given one the command line is:
quote:
(process:27651):
capable apps over SSH.)
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Christopher Howard
cmhowa...@alaska.eduwrote:
Hi. I just finished installing emacs-24.2. The graphical (gtk-based)
version starts fine; however, the text in all the menus (including the
tiles) is garbled (more specifically, replaced by empty
Hi. This is an educational question. I've been using nix pm for a few days
now, but all the packages I have been using are command-line, or simpler
graphics apps like emacs. I am curious: how does the nix approach (exact
dependencies of each package never change) handle stuff like opengl, which
is
Hi. Is there a mirror of nixpkgs-unstable somewhere? I am eager to get
started installing some packages with a recent Nix installation.
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Hi. I won't pretend to know much about Perl, but I recently install Nix on
an older SUSE Linux system (local installation, I have no admin
privileges). However, some of the nix-channel operations fail with:
error: substituter `/import/c/w/cmhoward2/local/libexec/nix/substituters/
Hi. Can the Nix pm be installed to a local user account on a Mac OS X
system? (I've done this under Linux.) I downloaded Nix and started to
compile and install the dependencies it needs. However, it appears that I'm
going to have to compile and install a lot of stuff, so I'm hoping to find
out if
A few questions, to help me understand how Nix works: Nix being a fully
deterministic package management system, does that mean that the exact
dependencies required by each package are fixed, i.e. do not change over
time for a specific package (version)? Does that include the
dependencies of those
Thank you every one for being patient in answering my many questions.
There is another one of some practical significance to me: Would there
be any negative effects that would result for altering the modification
time for any of the files in the Nix installation, the nix store, or the
nix state
Hi. Thank you in advance for your help.
There seems to be some dependency problem in the youtube-dl-2012.12.11
package from unstable (synced 1/9/2013). When I go to install it, I get
output similar to this each time:
code:
$ nix-env -i youtube-dl
installing `youtube-dl-2012.12.11'
these
Hi again. As mentioned, I installed (first time every) the Nix pkg
manager on my Gentoo amd64 box. I did an installation to a local
directory without any root privileges (adjusting the prefix, store
location, and state directory, per the documentation), and so I'm
building everything from source.
Hi. As mentioned, I did a Nix install to a regular user account, to see
if it could be done (I intend to use Nix on some work computers, which I
do not have root access on). I installed my first package yesterday
(bsd-games, thanks for the help).
I was wondering, in building the software, how
On my system, the bsd-games-2.17 package installed an essential data
file for the monop game to ~/.nix-profile/share/games/monop-cards.pck.
However, the monop game dies trying to get this file from
/usr/share/games/monop-cards.pck. Is this an issue I need to drop in the
bug tracker, or is it
Is there a convenient tool available already for querying the meta data
of a package and displaying it in a nice format? I was able to get the
info with nix-env -qa --meta --xml, but the xml output is a bit much. It
wouldn't be hard to make such a program, but I don't want to reinvent
the wheel.
On 01/08/2013 09:00 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
Christopher Howard christopher.how...@frigidcode.com writes:
I fixed this (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/251) and also set
the varlibdir to .. Games should therefore create there score file in
the directory they are started from
On 01/08/2013 10:53 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
In this particular case, I think it would be wiser to put variable data
into $out/var/games (presuming there is no technical reason this can be
done). The bsd-games configuration commentary states:
Then again... I only started using Nix 2
Hello. I couldn't find a Nix Beginners list so I hope I'm in the right
place. I recently installed the Nix pkg manager version 1.3 on my Gentoo
Linux box. Right now I'm installing my first program. However, I notice
that there is some garbled output at the beginning of the download
description
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