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diff --git a/doc/manual/package-management.xml b/doc/manual/package-management.xml index 9ab181692d18..be0d5f21bf1c 100644 --- a/doc/manual/package-management.xml +++ b/doc/manual/package-management.xml @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ to end-user applications like Mozilla Firefox. (Nix is however not tied to the Nix Package collection; you could write your own Nix expressions based on it, or completely new ones.) You can download the latest version from <link -xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix' />.</para> +xlink:href='http://nixos.org/releases/full-index-nixpkgs.html' />.</para> <para>Assuming that you have downloaded and unpacked a release of Nix Packages, you can view the set of available packages in the release: @@ -118,15 +118,15 @@ available somewhere. This is done using the containing a <emphasis>manifest</emphasis> describing what binaries are available. This URL should correspond to the Nix Packages release that you’re using. For instance, if you obtained a release from <link -xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.6pre1554/' />, then -you should do: +xlink:href='http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12pre11712-4lrp7j8x' +/>, then you should do: <screen> -$ nix-pull http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.6pre1554/MANIFEST</screen> +$ nix-pull http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12pre11712-4lrp7j8x/MANIFEST</screen> If you then issue the installation command, it should start downloading binaries from <systemitem -class='fqdomainname'>nix.cs.uu.nl</systemitem>, instead of building +class='fqdomainname'>nixos.org</systemitem>, instead of building them from source. This might still take a while since all dependencies must be downloaded, but on a reasonably fast connection such as an DSL line it’s on the order of a few minutes.</para> @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ URL.</para> <command>nix-channel --add</command>, e.g., <screen> -$ nix-channel --add http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable</screen> +$ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen> subscribes you to a channel that always contains that latest version of the Nix Packages collection. (Instead of @@ -496,20 +496,19 @@ available in the subscribed channels.</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> +xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable/">Nix +Packages collection</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 +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 |