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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2009-11-05T09·07+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2009-11-05T09·07+0000 |
| commit | 268d90a03eaab95d13c1326d58fb2287c628aedc (patch) | |
| tree | 0833352714936c3c71f7592b8e6835bafdc97b35 /doc/manual/package-management.xml | |
| parent | 1ff8758f762367ffd2517ce7d9d63c6c9746a0ee (diff) | |
* Various updates.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/package-management.xml | 23 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/package-management.xml b/doc/manual/package-management.xml index 387258e6974d..167e96e6f696 100644 --- a/doc/manual/package-management.xml +++ b/doc/manual/package-management.xml @@ -507,19 +507,16 @@ click on it, and it will be installed with all the necessary dependencies.</para> <para>For instance, you can go to <link -xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable/" /> — -or to any older release of Nix Packages — and click on any link for -the individual packages for your platform (say, <link -xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.10pre6622/pkgs/subversion-1.4.0-i686-linux.nixpkg'><literal>subversion-1.4.0</literal> -for <literal>i686-linux</literal></link>). The first time you do -this, your browser will ask what to do with -<literal>application/nix-package</literal> files. You should open -them with <filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename>. This -will open a window that asks you to confirm that you want to install -the package. When you answer <literal>Y</literal>, the package and -all its dependencies will be installed. This is a binary deployment -mechanism — you get packages pre-compiled for the selected platform -type.</para> +xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk/channel/latest" +/> and click on any link for the individual packages for your +platform. The first time you do this, your browser will ask what to +do with <literal>application/nix-package</literal> files. You should +open them with <filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename>. +This will open a window that asks you to confirm that you want to +install the package. When you answer <literal>Y</literal>, the +package and all its dependencies will be installed. This is a binary +deployment mechanism — you get packages pre-compiled for the selected +platform type.</para> <para>You can also install <literal>application/nix-package</literal> files from the command line directly. See <xref |