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diff --git a/doc/manual/installation.xml b/doc/manual/installation.xml index 4c433a6bf769..3e7ffc537302 100644 --- a/doc/manual/installation.xml +++ b/doc/manual/installation.xml @@ -42,7 +42,28 @@ platforms as well.</para> <section><title>Installing a binary distribution</title> -<para>The easiest way to install Nix is to use a binary package. +<para>The easiest way to install Nix is to run the following: + +<screen> +$ bash <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install) +</screen> + +This will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that +<filename>/nix</filename> is owned by the invoking user. You should +run this under your usual user account, <emphasis>not</emphasis> as +root. The script will invoke <command>sudo</command> to create +<filename>/nix</filename> if it doesn’t already exist. If you don’t +have <command>sudo</command>, you should manually create +<command>/nix</command> first as root: + +<screen> +$ mkdir /nix +$ chown alice /nix +</screen> + +</para> + +<para>You can also manually download and install a binary package. Binary packages of the latest stable release are available for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Mac OS X and various other systems from the <link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nix/download.html">Nix homepage</link>. @@ -55,7 +76,7 @@ build system</link>.</para> or upgraded using <command>rpm -U</command>. For example, <screen> -$ rpm -U nix-1.0-1.i386.rpm</screen> +$ rpm -U nix-1.7-1.i386.rpm</screen> </para> @@ -63,34 +84,24 @@ $ rpm -U nix-1.0-1.i386.rpm</screen> install it like this: <screen> -$ dpkg -i nix_1.0-1_amd64.deb</screen> +$ dpkg -i nix_1.7-1_amd64.deb</screen> </para> <para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD and -other Linux distributions, you can download a binary tarball. It -contains Nix and all its dependencies. You should unpack it somewhere -(e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and then run the script named -<command>install</command> inside the binary tarball: +other Linux distributions, you can download a binary tarball that +contains Nix and all its dependencies. (This is what the install +script at <uri>https://nixos.org/nix/install</uri> uses.) You should +unpack it somewhere (e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and then run +the script named <command>install</command> inside the binary tarball: <screen> alice$ cd /tmp -alice$ tar xfj nix-1.1-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2 -alice$ cd nix-1.1-x86_64-darwin +alice$ tar xfj nix-1.7-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2 +alice$ cd nix-1.7-x86_64-darwin alice$ ./install </screen> -You should run this under your usual user account, -<emphasis>not</emphasis> as root. The script will invoke -<command>sudo</command> to create <filename>/nix</filename> if it -doesn’t already exist. If you don’t have <command>sudo</command>, you -should manually create <command>/nix</command> first as root: - -<screen> -$ mkdir /nix -$ chown alice /nix -</screen> - </para> <para>Nix can be uninstalled using <command>rpm -e nix</command> or @@ -117,8 +128,7 @@ a source distribution.</para> <listitem><para>GNU Make.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>A fairly recent version of GCC/G++. Version 2.95 - and higher should work. Clang will also work.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>A version of GCC or Clang that supports C++11.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Perl 5.8 or higher.</para></listitem> |