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Today, I wanted to have another go with nix. Previously I just read about it and didn’t do anything for a couple of months. Now, I installed nix package manager with very few lines of code and two more to install many packages as described in his post. Installation was very fast on my banana laptop. Until now I used distrobox but I always wondered which distro/ package manager to use. What’s your experience with it?
For now, I’ll test it. It’s super easy to use. It may not be straight forward to a linux newcomer but if you know what you want, e.g. ffmpeg you can just add it with home-manager edit and install it with home-manager switch. So far, I love it!
The answers found below this post resonate with my own experiences.
I do have a question: When you run the
sestatuscommand in the terminal, what string/description is found corresponding to “Current mode”?Thank you for the response!
This is pretty interesting. If I recall correctly, installing Nix onto Silverblue came with the caveat that SELinux’ enforcing mode had to be turned off. But, your terminal output tells another story. I wonder what’s up.
FWIW, I had lost interest in installing Nix on Fedora Silverblue for this very reason. However, I might have to revisit my stance on this. Once again, thank you (for reinvigorating my interest in Nix)!
The source of the determinate nix installer has some mentions of SELinux. E.g. they have an .fc file, but I really don’t know anything about SELinux.
https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/tree/main
I’d like to know if it works for you now. I only ran the commands from the post and everything worked ootb
That’s probably why I gave up on it back then as well
Aight. Let’s give it a go:
Terminal interaction
Well…, for some reason it didn’t work. FWIW, I’m on the bluefin-dx-main-userns-hardened image as provided by secureblue.
Line 49
Yeah I noticed that line as well. But, I’m a bit pessimistic that it will not be solved. Btw, what’s the image you’re on?
Boring silverblue 40
Interesting!
So, I guess that at least one of the following ‘transitions’ is ‘blameworthy’:
I guess I’ll pass out on it for now. Thank you though!