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diff --git a/doc/manual/package-management.xml b/doc/manual/package-management.xml index d796c7f2b2bb..3d8bad1cf11e 100644 --- a/doc/manual/package-management.xml +++ b/doc/manual/package-management.xml @@ -478,7 +478,37 @@ available in the subscribed channels.</para> <section xml:id="sec-one-click"><title>One-click installs</title> -<para>TODO</para> +<para>Often, when you want to install a specific package (e.g., from +the <link +xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-unstable-latest/">Nix +Packages collection</link> or from our <link +xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/'>release server</link>), +subscribing to a channel is a bit cumbersome. And channels don’t help +you at all if you want to install an older version of a package than +the one provided by the current contents of the channel, or a package +that has been removed from the channel. That’s when +<emphasis>one-click installs</emphasis> come in handy: you can just go +to the web page that contains the package, 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://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-unstable-latest/" /> +— 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> + +<para>You can also install <literal>application/nix-package</literal> +files from the command line directly. See <xref +linkend='sec-nix-install-package' /> for details.</para> </section> |