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Bookmark or Share- Can nix be installed in a different location other than /nix?Nix does support symlinked store somewhat and there is a flag for that - NIX_IGNORE_SYMLINK_STORE. I had used symlinked /nix (with the flag) without any problems until I tried to install an R package which wanted to compile c++ code. At that point ld-wrapper.sh failed to recognize the path in the store after the symlink was replaced with actual ...
- nix - How to use postgresql in nixos - Stack Overflowpsql won't connect after nix-env because it just puts the PostgreSQL package into the /nix/store, but doesn't start it. You can check it on the terminal with. ps ax | grep postgres 2. nix-shell --pure shell.nix. This puts the PostgreSQL package in the /nix/store, starts and initializes the database cluster (with pg_ctl start and initdb ...
- Nix: Querying packages' packages - Stack OverflowI can query available packages w/ nix-env -qa [package] but how can I look for optional packages (e.g. libraries) that depend on a primary package and can be loaded or installed separately? Example: Coq (coq-8.6) has packages coqPackages_8_6.ssreflect and coqPackages_8_6.mathcomp that I can get no information about in Nix AFAIK
- ruby - What is the meaning of *nix? - Stack Overflow*nix just means operating systems that are like the old workhorse Unix. Some examples include Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X (its kernel, Darwin, is based on BSD). The main relation between *nix and Ruby is just a pragmatic one; most Ruby developers seem to prefer to work on Unix-like OSes (typically Linux or Mac OS X).
- Nix: How a derivation sets up PATH in nix-shell without calling builder ...And nix-shell doesn't really execute the builder, which means there's no way of running commands such as export PATH=.... But I found some other derivations provide their virtual shell environment in which PATH is arbitrarily set e.g .env attribute of haskell package derivations.
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