[Nix-dev] How do I install firefox nightly or any other program that gets daily updates?
CodeHero
codehero at nerdpol.ch
Fri Mar 6 23:00:52 CET 2015
So I tried to run firefox nightly by downloading the tar from
https://nightly.mozilla.org/ and installing a wrapper with the
directions from
https://nixos.org/wiki/FAQ#I.27ve_downloaded_a_binary.2C_but_I_can.27t_run_it.2C_what_can_I_do.3F.
However that did not work. When I try to run the wrapper using
./result/bin/firefox-nightly it says that the file
/nix/store/...-firefox-nightly/bin/.firefox-nightly-wrapped does not
exist although it does exist.
When calling nixos-build firefox-nightly.nix, the build script also
complains that firefox is not an ELF file, but I don't know if that has
anything to with it not finding the *-wrapped file.
Now I'm not sure if that's even the best solution or if I can somehow
make a nix expression that I can add to the global configuration.nix
that always fetches the current nightly and installs it when i run
nixos-rebuild.
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