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Install

• Install Notes for Myself

These are just some simple install notes for myself (in-case I have to reinstall unexpectedly).

Install Notes for Myself

To get this running on a NixOS system, I will start by cloning the repo:

git clone https://gitlab.com/librephoenix/nixos-config.git /path/to/my/config/folder

To get the hardware configuration on a new system, I can other copy from /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix or run:

sudo nixos-generate-config --dir /dotfiles/path/system

Then, I can switch into the system configuration by running:

cd /dotfiles/path
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#snowfire

Home manager can be installed with:

nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
nix-channel --update
nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install

If home-manager starts to not cooperate, it may be because the unstable branch of nixpkgs is in the Nix channel list. This can be fixed via:

nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable

Home-manager may also not work without re-logging back in after it has been installed.

Once home-manager is running, my home-manager configuration can be installed with:

home-manager switch --flake .#emmet

This loads in my convenience script phoenix, which replaces frequently used nix and nixos commands with more user friendly ones, namely:

• phoenix sync to build and switch system and home configuration

  • phoenix sync system to build and switch only system configuration
  • phoenix sync user to build and switch only home configuration
• phoenix update to update flake inputs

• phoenix gc to garbage collect

  • If no argument is given, it cleans anything older than 30 days
  • If a time argument is supplied (i.e. 10d), it cleans stuff older than that (10 days in this example)
  • If the argument full is given, it deletes all previous generations