urob/dotfiles

Bootstrap config

Preliminaries (WSL only)

Enable system.d

sudo sh -c 'echo "[boot]" > /etc/resolv.conf'
sudo sh -c 'echo "systemd=true" >> /etc/resolv.conf'

Fix name resolution on corporate networks

# Debian 12 does not yet support net.ipv4.ping_group_range which allows non-root pings
sudo ping www.google.com

# Run this if name resolution fails
sudo unlink /etc/resolv.conf
sudo sh -c 'echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf'

# Prevent WSL from auto-generating resolv.conf on reboot
sudo sh -c 'echo "[network]" >> /etc/resolv.conf'
sudo sh -c 'echo "generateResolvConf=false" >> /etc/resolv.conf'

Reboot

# Run this on ps1
wsl -t debian
wsl -d debian

Install config on Debian

Install curl

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install curl

Run the installer script

cd && bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/urob/dotfiles/main/bootstrap.sh)

Manually Set Up Home Manager

# Install Nix
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install

# Start nix daemon without reloading shell
. /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh

# Initialize home manager in current directory
cd <path/to/flake.nix>
nix run . -- init --switch . --impure

Maintainance

Rebuild config

# outOfStoreSymlinks require impure
home-manager switch --flake <path/to/flake.nix> --impure

Update all packages

# update all inputs
nix flake update --flake <path/to/flake.nix>

# update a single flake input
nix flake lock --update-input <input>

Troubleshooting

Permission errors when creating outOfStoreSymlinks: see issues #4692, #9579, and PR #9723

error:
    … while setting up the build environment

    error: getting attributes of path '/nix/store/d5w0zqag0v8wkyab59aph7v9ypkr3h6y-hm_nvim':
    Permission denied

Workaround:

# uninstall nix if already installed
/nix/nix-installer uninstall

# install old-stable version 2.18.1
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install --nix-package-url https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.18.1/nix-2.18.1-x86_64-linux.tar.xz

The following error occurs if systemd is not enabled

error: could not set permissions on '/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user' to 755:
Operation not permitted

See https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Locales on how to set locales. TLDR: add the following to .zshenv (done automatically in my config):
```
export LOCALE_ARCHIVE=/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
```

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