How To Install nix-bin on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nix-bin on Debian 12.
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 Debian 12. 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 Debian. 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 Debian 12
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 Debian 12, 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 Debian 12 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
Dependencies
nix-bin have the following dependencies:
- bzip2
- curl
- libdbd-sqlite3-perl
- libwww-curl-perl
- lsb-base
- perl
- xz-utils
- libarchive13
- libboost-context1.74.0
- libbrotli1
- libbsd0
- libc6
- libcpuid16
- libcurl3-gnutls
- libgc1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nix-bin package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
