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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="sec-custom-packages">
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<title>Adding Custom Packages</title>
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<title>Adding Custom Packages</title>
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<para>It’s possible that a package you need is not available in NixOS.
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In that case, you can do two things. First, you can clone the Nixpkgs
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repository, add the package to your clone, and (optionally) submit a
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patch or pull request to have it accepted into the main Nixpkgs
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repository. This is described in detail in the <link
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual">Nixpkgs manual</link>.
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In short, you clone Nixpkgs:
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<para>
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It’s possible that a package you need is not available in NixOS. In that
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case, you can do two things. First, you can clone the Nixpkgs repository, add
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the package to your clone, and (optionally) submit a patch or pull request to
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have it accepted into the main Nixpkgs repository. This is described in
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detail in the <link
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual">Nixpkgs
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manual</link>. In short, you clone Nixpkgs:
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<screen>
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$ git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git
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$ cd nixpkgs
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</screen>
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Then you write and test the package as described in the Nixpkgs
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manual. Finally, you add it to
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<literal>environment.systemPackages</literal>, e.g.
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Then you write and test the package as described in the Nixpkgs manual.
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Finally, you add it to <literal>environment.systemPackages</literal>, e.g.
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<programlisting>
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<xref linkend="opt-environment.systemPackages"/> = [ pkgs.my-package ];
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</programlisting>
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and you run <command>nixos-rebuild</command>, specifying your own
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Nixpkgs tree:
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and you run <command>nixos-rebuild</command>, specifying your own Nixpkgs
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tree:
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<screen>
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# nixos-rebuild switch -I nixpkgs=/path/to/my/nixpkgs</screen>
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>The second possibility is to add the package outside of the
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Nixpkgs tree. For instance, here is how you specify a build of the
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<link xlink:href="http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/">GNU Hello</link>
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package directly in <filename>configuration.nix</filename>:
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<para>
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The second possibility is to add the package outside of the Nixpkgs tree. For
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instance, here is how you specify a build of the
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<link xlink:href="http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/">GNU Hello</link>
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package directly in <filename>configuration.nix</filename>:
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<programlisting>
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<xref linkend="opt-environment.systemPackages"/> =
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let
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@@ -53,13 +46,12 @@ package directly in <filename>configuration.nix</filename>:
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in
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[ my-hello ];
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</programlisting>
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Of course, you can also move the definition of
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<literal>my-hello</literal> into a separate Nix expression, e.g.
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Of course, you can also move the definition of <literal>my-hello</literal>
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into a separate Nix expression, e.g.
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<programlisting>
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<xref linkend="opt-environment.systemPackages"/> = [ (import ./my-hello.nix) ];
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</programlisting>
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where <filename>my-hello.nix</filename> contains:
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where <filename>my-hello.nix</filename> contains:
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<programlisting>
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with import <nixpkgs> {}; # bring all of Nixpkgs into scope
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};
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}
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</programlisting>
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This allows testing the package easily:
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This allows testing the package easily:
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<screen>
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$ nix-build my-hello.nix
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$ ./result/bin/hello
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Hello, world!
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</screen>
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</para>
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</para>
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</section>
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