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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-obtaining-source">
<title>Obtaining a Source Distribution</title>
<para>The source tarball of the most recent stable release can be
downloaded from the <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nix/download.html">Nix homepage</link>.
You can also grab the <link
xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/release/latest-finished#tabs-constituents">most
recent development release</link>.</para>
<para>Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained
from its <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix">Git
repository</link>. For example, the following command will check out
the latest revision into a directory called
<filename>nix</filename>:</para>
<screen>
$ git clone https://github.com/NixOS/nix</screen>
<para>Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tags">tags</link> of the
repository.</para>
</section>
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