[Nix-dev] Nix on ubuntu 11.04

[Marco Maggesi]

Thanks for reporting.
I run a genuine ubuntu 64bit as virtualbox guest on a OSX host (Snow Leopard 10.6.8, MacBook Pro, Intel Core i7).

Marco

On Aug 17, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:

> On 17 August 2011 13:30, Marco Maggesi <maggesi at math.unifi.it> wrote:
>> Does anybody runs nix on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)?
>> 
>> It does not work for me.  E.g.:
>> 
>> maggesi at bantu:~$ nix-env -i fossil
>> installing `fossil-1.18'
>> error: unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory
>> maggesi at bantu:~$
> 
> Hm, that command succeeds on my work machine which runs an Ubuntu
> 11.04 "respin" called Pinguy OS 11.04 (32-bit). Pinguy is binary
> compatible with Ubuntu (it uses the same repos), but when I get home
> I'll try it on a genuine Ubuntu 11.04 system.
> 
> I have installed nix-0.16 from source.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman