#Nix

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

#Installation and first steps

Visit nix.dev for installation instructions and beginner tutorials.

Full reference documentation can be found in the Nix manual.

#Building and developing

Follow instructions in the Nix reference manual to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.

#Contributing

Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.

#Additional resources

Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, published 2006. Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.

• The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org
• Official documentation on nix.dev
• Nixpkgs is the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world
• NixOS is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
• Discourse
• Matrix: #users:nixos.org for user support and #nix-dev:nixos.org for development

#License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.