abiosoft / dotfiles

dotfiles. zsh, neovim, tmux, i3 e.t.c.

dotfiles

Dotfiles managed with Nix and Stow

Prerequisite

Nix

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)

Installation

Install Stow

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.stow

Setup dotfiles

stow bat bin git nix tmux neovim zsh ideavim

Install packages

nix-env -if ~/.config/nix/core.nix

Modifying declarative Nix packages

NOTE: only works in multi-user mode, running nix-env -irf ... in single user mode would remove and break nix.

# edit ~/.config/nix/packages.nix to add extra packages
nix-env -irf ~/.config/nix/core.nix

Adding unstable channel

nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable nixpkgs-unstable

Why not Home-Manager since this is based Nix?

After wasting tangible time battling with errors like the following, I chose to dump Home-Manager and manage dotfiles normally i.e. via the config files.

building '/nix/store/v0ga03g14dvqrw1qmq2accrd5g6j1fvl-user-environment.drv'...
error: files '/nix/store/9qxkblnxyizg5fbq0g1g53r02fl9nqch-home-manager-path/share/zsh/site-functions/_nix' and '/nix/store/6qw3r57nra08ars8j8zyj3fl8lz4cvnd-nix-2.10.3/share/zsh/site-functions/_nix' have the same priority 5; use 'nix-env --set-flag priority NUMBER INSTALLED_PKGNAME' or type 'nix profile install --help' if using 'nix profile' to find out howto change the priority of one of the conflicting packages (0 being the highest priority)
error: builder for '/nix/store/v0ga03g14dvqrw1qmq2accrd5g6j1fvl-user-environment.drv' failed with exit code 1

I am fond of reproducing my dev setup (usually in virtual machines) and intermittently facing obscure errors makes Home-Manager unappealing.