Guides

These sections contain guides to getting things done.

• Recipes
  • Configure Nix to use a custom binary cache
  • Automatic environments
  • Dependencies in the development shell
  • Managing remote sources
  • Python development environment
  • Setting up post-build hooks
  • Continuous integration with GitHub Actions
• Best practices
  • URLs
  • Recursive attribute set rec { ... }
  • with scopes
  • <...> lookup paths
  • Reproducible Nixpkgs configuration
  • Updating nested attribute sets
  • Reproducible source paths
• Troubleshooting
  • What to do if a binary cache is down or unreachable?
  • How to force Nix to re-check if something exists in the binary cache?
  • How to fix: error: querying path in database: database disk image is malformed
  • How to fix: error: current Nix store schema is version 10, but I only support 7
  • How to fix: writing to file: Connection reset by peer
  • macOS update breaks Nix installation
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Nix
  • NixOS