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All you need is Nix#

Since you will be installing packages from the nixpkgs repository, the only requirement is to have the nix command on your system.

If you are running on a NixOS System you are all set.

Otherwise you can install it on any Linux, MacOS, Windows-WSL2. We recommend either the Lix or Determinate nix installers.

Running nix-versions directly.#

Just run this command and skip all of this section.

nix run github:vic/nix-versions

::: note Enabling Nix Flakes and the Modern Nix command. If this is your first time using nix, it's possible that you might need to enable: --extra-experimental-features 'flakes nix-command' at the command line or enable those features at your nix.conf file :::

Installing on your system.#

If you want to avoid typing nix run everytime, you might consider installing nix-versions on your profile.

nix profile install github:vic/nix-versions
nix-versions --help