[Nix-dev] Installing in $HOME and datadir

Pjotr Prins pjotr.public12 at thebird.nl
Sat Oct 11 11:09:39 CEST 2014


PRoot has given me the easiest and nicest Nix install in user land
*EVER*. PRoot tricks Linux in adding a /nix/store mounted on $HOME
somewhere. 

I have updated the wiki:

  https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_%28on_another_distribution%29

Finally a Nix that is happy in $HOME, and I get binary installs too.

Magic, really. Game changer. Totally.

$HOME installs are essential for scientific computing. Thanks Ian-Woo
Kim for giving the pointer.

Pj.



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