{"id":184,"date":"2020-05-10T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sycured.127.0.0.1.sslip.io\/?p=184"},"modified":"2024-01-13T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T21:56:07","slug":"nix-on-macos-catalina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10.42.0.68:8080\/blog\/nix-on-macos-catalina","title":{"rendered":"Nix on macOS Catalina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Installing Nix<\/a> on macOS Catalina isn’t hard if you know a little about APFS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m the only user on my MacBook Pro so I don’t install using daemon mode, you can easily custom it (last step).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Step 1: synthetic.conf<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It’s the way to create a folder in \/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

echo 'nix' | sudo tee -a \/etc\/synthetic.conf<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step 2: reboot<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
We need to reboot to apply the change about synthetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After reboot, you have \/nix created<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step 3: creating a new volume<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
It’s the magic about APFS and attaches it to \/nix<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo diskutil apfs addVolume disk1 APFSX Nix -mountpoint \/nix<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
I’m the owner of the new volume<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo diskutil enableOwnership \/nix<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
We hide \/nix and auto-mount the new volume to \/nix at boot<\/p>\n\n\n\n
echo \"LABEL=Nix \/nix apfs rw\" | sudo tee -a \/etc\/fstab<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Disable spotlight (indexing) on \/nix<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo mdutil -i off \/nix<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step 4: install<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
curl -L https:\/\/nixos.org\/nix\/install | sh<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step 5: user config<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
We can replace and standardize each nix-env -i pkg_name<\/code> with a config file: $HOME\/.config\/nixpkgs\/config.nix<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
An example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
{\n    allowUnfree = true;\n\n    packageOverrides = pkgs: with pkgs; {\n        all = pkgs.buildEnv {\n            name = \"all\";\n            paths = [\n                ansible\n                ansible-lint\n                cloc\n                colordiff\n                dos2unix\n                ffmpeg-full\n                htop\n                httpie\n                jq\n                mtr\n                pwgen\n                silver-searcher\n                tmux\n                tree\n                watch\n                wget\n                whois\n                yq\n                zsh\n                zstd\n            ];\n        };\n    };\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And to apply this config file: nix-env -i all<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step 6: my alias to upgrade and clean the old version<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
nixupgrade='nix-channel --update && nix-env -u && nix-collect-garbage -d'<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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