You know, immutable enterprise systems.
I installed HeliumOS (Almalinux bootc) on a corebooted Chromebook. Works really well, but audio needs to be configured.
The script needs a recent python which is not available there.
Go and rust can be installed for a user only. Is there something similar for python?
If you can install nix (you can install it per user) then you can have whatever you want in a temporary shell with nix-shell -p python
nix profile install nixpkgs#python if you want it actually installed
Home manager is also entirely user level I believe and lets you use a declarative config too
I tried to get install instructions for home-manager and they only had them if you are already on nix?
I didnt get it
I’d try installing just regular nix (package manager, not operating system) rather than home manager, that’s what I do on by Debian pi
There’s an install script on their website that does it all for you
Nice! Yes I will do that. What is the difference between the 2?
Careful, there’s three different terms in the mix here:
NixOS: an entire operating system, you don’t need this.
nix: the nix package manager. This is what you’ll need to install. look for single user install in the instructions.
home-manager: a module for nix. It’s aim is to allow declarative configuration of a users’ home configuration (and allow easier per-user install of packages on a global nix install).
If you want to go down the nix route, which I would recommend if you enjoy tinkering and having fine control over your system, you should start with installing nix. With that, you can already setup a shell that has the newest version of python available.
Going beyond that, I can link you some more resources, if you want c:
So “nix install” means placing a nix binary somewhere in my user $PATH?
Home-manager > nix profile
Also, nix-shell is supposed to be used for debugging, and nix shell/run/develop for using packages without installing them
Source on the second statement? My understanding was that nix-shell is legacy for systems without flakes and nix-command enabled, and are being replaced by nix shell/run/develop
Does home manager work standalone without having nix first? I’ve never installed it on non-nixos
Nix shell is absolutely for running packages without installing them it literally tells you to do that in the terminal hint