On 17 February 2013 19:55, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bjørn, > > On 2013-02-17 11:56, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> One thing I miss from Ubuntu is the ability to suggest what package >> to >> install when I try to run a missing program: >> >> $ giggle >> The program 'giggle' is currently not installed. You can install it >> by typing: >> sudo apt-get install giggle >> >> Does anyone know how to implement that in nixos? >> > > This was recently implemented by Eelco, but for now you need to > manually download a database (in the future it should be part of the > channel). See > https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/commit/b89f941b2074b104be303c3e7e47cf4a97c3128d > for details.
Cool! I had some trouble with sudo and stdout redirect, so I ended up with this: sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/nixos curl http://nixos.org/~eelco/programs.sqlite.xz | xz -d > programs.sqlite sudo cp programs.sqlite /var/lib/nixos/ And now it works. [bfo@nixos:~]$ hello The program 'hello' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: nix-env -i hello Thanks guys! Best regards, Bjørn Forsman _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
