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A powerful package manager that makes package management reliable, reproducible, and declarative. Some features of nix (nix command, flakes, etc.) are experimental and require enabling experimental features. Some subcommands such as build, develop, flake, registry, profile, search, repl, store, edit, why-depends, etc. have their own usage documentation.

Enable the nix command

mkdir --parents ~/.config/nix; echo 'experimental-features = nix-command flakes' >~/.config/nix/nix.confIdentify

Search for a package in nixpkgs via its name or description

nix search nixpkgs search_termIdentify

Start a shell with the specified packages from nixpkgs available

nix shell nixpkgs#pkg1 nixpkgs#pkg2 nixpkgs#pkg3 ...Identify

Install some packages from nixpkgs permanently

nix profile install nixpkgs#pkg1 nixpkgs#pkg2 nixpkgs#pkg3 ...Identify

Remove unused paths from Nix store to free up space

nix store gcIdentify

Start an interactive environment for evaluating Nix expressions

nix replIdentify

Display help for a specific subcommand

nix help subcommandIdentify