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The opam package manager relies on external solvers to determine package management decisions it makes related to upgrades, new installations, etc. While, strictly speaking, an external solver is optional, aspcud is highly recommended in documentation. Furthermore, even having a relatively small number of packages installed quickly causes the limits of the interal solver to be reached (before it times out). Aspcud itself depends on two programs from the same suite: gringo, and clasp. On Darwin, Boost 1.55 (and thus Gringo) do not build, so we only support Aspcud on non-Darwin platforms.
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-16.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-16.03
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
NixOS linux distribution source code is located inside
nixos/ folder.
- NixOS installation instructions
- Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)
- Manual (How to write packages for Nix)
- Manual (NixOS)
- Nix Wiki (deprecated, see milestone "Move the Wiki!")
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 16.03 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 16.03 release
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