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<title>Installation</title>
<section><info><title>Obtaining Nix</title></info>
<section><title>Obtaining Nix</title>
<para>The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a <link
xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix">source
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</section>
<section><info><title>Prerequisites</title></info>
<section><title>Prerequisites</title>
<para><emphasis>The following prerequisites only apply when you build
from source</emphasis>. Binary releases (e.g., RPMs) have no
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</section>
<section><info><title>Building Nix from source</title></info>
<section><title>Building Nix from source</title>
<para>After unpacking or checking out the Nix sources, issue the
following commands:
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</section>
<section><info><title>Installing from RPMs</title></info>
<section><title>Installing from RPMs</title>
<para>RPM packages of Nix can be downloaded from <uri
xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix">http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix</uri>.
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</section>
<section><info><title>Upgrading Nix through Nix</title></info>
<section><title>Upgrading Nix through Nix</title>
<para>You can install the latest stable version of Nix through Nix
itself by subscribing to the channel <link
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</section>
<section><info><title>Permissions</title></info>
<section><title>Permissions</title>
<para>All Nix operations must be performed under the user ID that owns
the Nix store and database
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respectively). When installed from the RPM packages, these
directories are owned by <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>.</para>
<section><info><title>Setuid installation</title></info>
<section><title>Setuid installation</title>
<para>As a somewhat <emphasis>ad hoc</emphasis> hack, you can also
install the Nix binaries <quote>setuid</quote> so that a Nix store can
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</section>
<section><info><title>Using Nix</title></info>
<section><title>Using Nix</title>
<para>To use Nix, some environment variables should be set. In
particular, <envar>PATH</envar> should contain the directories