[Nix-dev] Suggest package to install

[shea at shealevy.com]

Hi Bjørn,

On 2013-02-17 11:56, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One thing I miss from Ubuntu is the ability to suggest what package 
> to
> install when I try to run a missing program:
>
> $ giggle
> The program 'giggle' is currently not installed. You can install it 
> by typing:
> sudo apt-get install giggle
>
> Does anyone know how to implement that in nixos?
>

This was recently implemented by Eelco, but for now you need to 
manually download a database (in the future it should be part of the 
channel). See 
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/commit/b89f941b2074b104be303c3e7e47cf4a97c3128d 
for details.

>
> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman
>

Thanks,
Shea