Skill · Linux · Manage packages and reproducible environments with Nix
Install Nix and manage packages with profiles and generations
Install Nix, search and try packages without touching the system with nix shell and nix run, and roll back thanks to profiles and generations.
Start lesson 1The Linux domain
- 5 lessons
- ~2 h 30 of reading
- 5 quizzes
- 0 proof lab
The path
Where it comes from, where it leads
What you need to know first, where you stand on this skill, and what it opens next. Your status is computed in your browser, from what you have read and passed.
Before · 1 prerequisite
Recommended before · 2
This skill, for you
Install Nix and manage packages with profiles and generations
Computing
It unlocks · 1 skill
The path through the foundations From the most upstream foundation to this skill: what is in place, what remains to read.
Lessons
How to learn it
5 lessons, about ~2 h 30, in program order. Each lesson ends with its quiz.
The program
5 lessons · ~2 h 30
- 1Nix: understand the ecosystem and know when to use it· 30 min
- 2Install Nix on Linux: single-user and multi-user mode· 30 min
- 3Nix store, profiles and generations: understand the data model· 30 min
- 4Modern Nix commands: search, shell, run, build, profile· 30 min
- 5Classic Nix commands: nix-env, nix-build, nix-shell, nix-channel· 30 min
Beyond the lessons
Assess, practise, pass the proof
Reading a lesson confirms nothing. A skill is confirmed by a passed quiz, practised in a guided lab, and put to the test by a challenge or a mission; an imported lab result is not verified by the site.
Assess yourself
5 quizzes
At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, they confirm the skill.
Practice
No guided lab
No guided lab practices it yet.
Proof
No proof
Neither a challenge nor a mission with a proof yet.
Placement test
Preparing the questions…
Your answers in detail
For each question asked: your answer, the correct answer, its explanation and the page to reread.
Around it
Who requires it, who teaches it
Required by
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Taught by
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