[Nix-dev] Nix on ubuntu 11.04

Michael Raskin 7c6f434c at mail.ru
Wed Aug 17 13:45:36 CEST 2011


>maggesi at bantu:~$ nix-env -i fossil
>installing `fossil-1.18'
>error: unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory
>maggesi at bantu:~$ 

ulimit -a output may help
also, "free -m"

>I tried nix version 0.16, first with the deb package then I compiled the sources myself.
>I would like to try the svn trunk version of nix but I get the following compile error during the installation:
>
>make[3]: Entering directory `/home/maggesi/nix/src/libexpr'
>false -v -o parser-tab.cc ./parser.y -d
>make[3]: *** [parser-tab.hh] Error 1

You need to have flex and bison installed for parser regeneration

Do you have them?

>Also the link
>http://hydra.nixos.org/view/nix/trunk/latest
>which is referenced from
>http://nixos.org/nix/download.html
>gives 404 page not found :(

I guess current version is 
http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nix/trunk/channel/latest

Is this correct? I do not think I can update Nix homepage..






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