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Nix Manual

Nix is a package manager which comes in a form of many command line tools. Packages that Nix can build are defined with Nix Expression Language.
- Installation
- Basic package management
- What is a channel?
- Main command line tools:
  - nix-env — manipulate or query Nix user environments
  - nix-build — build a Nix expression
  - nix-shell — start an interactive shell based on a Nix expression
  - nix-store — manipulate or query the Nix store
- Nix expression language
Full Nix Manual
Nixpkgs Manual

The Nix Packages collection (Nixpkgs) is a set of thousands of packages for the Nix package manager and NixOS Linux distribution.
- Configure nixpkgs
- Customize packages (override packages)
- Extend nixpkgs (via overlays)
- Adding a package to nixpkgs
  - The Standard Environment
  - Fetching sources
  - Building images:
    - Docker
    - Snap
    - AppImage
    - OCI
    - ...
- Integrate Nix with programming languages:
  - Javascript (Node)
  - Python
  - Ruby
  - Java
  - Go
  - Rust
  - R
  - Haskell
  - Elm
  - BEAM Languages (Erlang, Elixir, LFE)
  - Lua
  - Idris
  - Coq
  - Perl
  - OCaml
  - ...
- Integrate Nix with frameworks:
  - Android
  - IOS
  - Titanium
  - Tex Live
  - Qt
  - ...
- Configure your editor with Nix:
  - Vim
  - Emacs
  - Eclipse
  - Kakoune
  - ...
- Contributing to Nixpkgs
Full Nixpkgs Manual
NixOS Manual

NixOS is a Linux distribution based on Nix package manager.
Full NixOS Manual

Other learning resources
- Nix Pills — At the beginning you may feel that some of the magic which happens behind the scenes is hard to grasp. This series aims to complement the existing explanations from the more formal documents.
- Wiki — A user-maintained wiki for Nix and NixOS.
- nix.dev — nix.dev presents topical, practical ways of using Nix package manager ecosystem.
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