ihgann / nix-config

My nix configuration on macOS using home-manager and nix-darwin.

nix-config

My nix configuration.

Installation

1. Install nix
2. Install nix-darwin

In addition to the regular installation steps (which were painful), I had to add darwin as a channel for my user:

nix-channel --add https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/archive/master.tar.gz darwin
nix-channel --update

3. Install home-manager

nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
nix-channel --update

4. Clone this repo into ~/.nixpkgs

5. Run:

darwin-rebuild switch

Alfred

Mac apps built with Nix don't play well with Alfred / spotlight search. To work around this, we create aliases for nix applications and place them in $HOME/Applications/Nix. See this issue for more context.

We need to configure Alfred to index aliases by going to Alfred Preferences -> Features -> Default Results -> Extras -> Advanced... and dragging in one of the aliases in $HOME/Applications/Nix.

Updating

Root owns the nixpkgs channel so sudo is needed to update that:

sudo nix-channel --update

User channels should be updated as well:

nix-channel --update