How To Install nix-bin on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nix-bin
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nix-bin
nix-bin is:
A powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Nix provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.
NOTE: This package only provides the nix binaries. One still needs to setup directories, environments variables and configuration files to use nix as described in the nix manual. The package nix-setup-systemd provides such a setup using systemd mechanisms, also see /usr/share/doc/nix-bin/README.Debian.
There are three methods to install nix-bin
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nix-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nix-bin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nix-bin
Install nix-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nix-bin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nix-bin
Install nix-bin Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nix-bin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nix-bin
How To Uninstall nix-bin on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nix-bin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nix-bin
Uninstall nix-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nix-bin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nix-bin
Remove nix-bin Configurations and Data
To remove nix-bin
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nix-bin
Remove nix-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nix-bin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nix-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nix-bin
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.