mkamsani/csit321-fyp-nix

Development environment in NixOS virtual machine for my final year project.

NixOS Development Environment

This setup is for the LiveCD GNOME installation.

Open the terminal with Console and enter the following:

github='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkamsani/CSIT321-FYP-Nix/main/'
cd /etc/nixos
sudo cp configuration.nix configuration.nix.bak
sudo curl $github/configuration.nix

You should see the output of a configuration file.

Next, we download the file into /etc/nixos directory. In the same terminal:

sudo rm -f configuration.nix
sudo curl -o $HOME/.p10k.zsh $github/.p10k.zsh
sudo curl -o configuration.nix $github/configuration.nix
sudo nixos-rebuild switch

NixOS will fetch the required packages, and build the system based on the configuration file.

You might see the following output during the build:

trace: warning: optionsDocBook is deprecated since 23.11 and will be removed in 24.05

This is not caused by the configuration, the warning will disappear in a future update:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/warning-optionsdocbook-is-deprecated-since-23-11-and-will-be-removed-in-24-05/31353/2

Reboot the system, open the terminal again:

sudo nix-collect-garbage --delete-old

This removes unused packages from the system.

To add/remove packages or modify your configuration, edit the /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file.