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Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.

16 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 1 story, 15 comments · first 2023-02-27 · latest 2025-08-17

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  1. …and secure baseline rather than… whatever this is. Easy to install on Mac, Linux, or WSL: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer?tab=read...
    comment by rictic · 2025-08-17 · in In one command use 500 open source tools
  2. …switch --flake nix/#$USER [1] https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/issue-installing-ce... [2] https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer [3] https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Home_Manager Working with rpm-ostree; upgrading the layered…
    comment by westurner · 2025-04-08 · in SELinux on NixOS
  3. https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer I've had good experience with this installer if you have root access. I also installed nix on my work HPC cluster running Ubuntu via nix-portable.
    comment by kombine · 2025-02-09 · in Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix
  4. …for the nix store, but the determinate installer was built to fix any worries of that happening. https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
    comment by dazaidesu · 2024-08-22 · in Nix in 100 Seconds [video]
  5. …is no need to use the official one: https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer 1: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer?tab=read...
    comment by Aerbil313 · 2024-02-04 · in A new Debian package helper: debputy
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    story by ingve · 2024-01-07 · 0 comments
  7. …mind opening an issue over here[1]? We have seen some related issues that might dovetail nicely. 1. https://github.com/determinateSystems/nix-installer
    comment by grhmc · 2023-10-25 · in Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore
  8. …it using that script. But given how we've built the installer that should be pretty seamless. 1. https://github.com/determinateSystems/nix-installer#uninstal...
    comment by biggestlou · 2023-10-25 · in Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore
  9. The Determinate Systems nix installer is quite smooth: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/ Though it does tend to get clobbered on macOS updates.
    comment by faitswulff · 2023-09-27 · in macOS Sonoma is available today
  10. …in CI. When trying to use it locally on macOS, this here is just some "you wanna do _what_?!": https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/tree/v0.... (not to pick on determinate.systems, the upstream is similarly facepalm:…
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-08-09 · in PackagingCon – A conference only for software package management
  11. …up correctly for you, use the Determinate Nix Installer for a fast and easy installation: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer In case you don't want to wait for the final package to land in Nixpkgs, command for installing…
    comment by pxc · 2023-04-07 · in Neovim 0.9
  12. …a bit better with macOS' integration quirks, making uninstalling and reinstalling a bit easier: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer If you like NixOS' declarative style and service/configuration management capabilities,…
    comment by pxc · 2023-03-29 · in Nuenv: An experimental Nushell builder for Nix packages
  13. …I went ahead and reported this upstream. Crosslinking in case you want to subscribe to that thread: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/issues/2... I know the primary dev on this project does use wsl, so hopefully this'll…
    comment by abathur · 2023-02-28 · in The Determinate Nix Installer
  14. I commented elsewhere in the thread, but we have an open issue for SELinux support: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/issues/1... . Hopefully we can get that rolling soon.
    comment by grhmc · 2023-02-27 · in The Determinate Nix Installer
  15. …tweaks to the Nix configuration to make what we think are user-friendly improvements. For example: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/blob/mai... Our installer also supports some environments that the upstream installer…
    comment by grhmc · 2023-02-27 · in The Determinate Nix Installer
  16. …don't support SELinux yet, but there is work in that direction. Here's our tracking issue: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/issues/1... and there is an upstream Nix issue, too: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/7850 .
    comment by grhmc · 2023-02-27 · in The Determinate Nix Installer