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How to install Nix on Fedora Silverblue (julianhofer.eu)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today, I wanted to have another go with nix. Previously I just read about it and didn't do anything for a couple of months. Now, I installed nix package manager with very few lines of code and two more to install many packages as described in his post. Installation was very fast on my banana laptop. Until now I used distrobox but I always wondered which distro/ package manager to use. What's your experience with it? For now, I'll test it. It's super easy to use. It may not be straight forward to a linux newcomer but if you know what you want, e.g. ffmpeg you can just add it with home-manager edit and install it with home-manager switch. So far, I love it!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Dont. uBlue also switched away from it.

My question is, how do I remove it again?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

Removing nix is mostly done by deleting /nix, and removing some systemd services, as well as deleting some nix-related users or groups (iirc nixblkd)

Because almost all of nix happens in /nix it doesn't clutter much of the system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (8 children)

/nix doesnt work on Fedora Atomic, thats the thing. So it has to be somewhere else.

I still have dozens of strange Nix users left

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why does it work on my machine? I'm on silverblue

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dont know how they solve it, but /nix is not possible.

Maybe in /var/nix and symlinked or mounted to /nix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, that's likely the case.

The ahayzen/silverblue-nix guide uses bind mounts from /var/lib/nix to /nix. The latter being created by making / temporarily writeable with chattr +i /.

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