Nix Setup

Installing npins, nix, and enabling the binary cache.

WARNING

This page is for the purposes for the Tutorial. You should read How-to Guides - Install wire for installing wire for regular use.

Nix Installation

You should install nix if you do not have it on your system already. There are detailed steps to installing Nix on nix.dev.

By the end of the installation, you should see something like this:

$ nix --version
nix (Nix) 2.11.0

Binary Cache

Because wire can be heavy to compile, it is distributed with a binary cache.

You must enable the garnix binary cache or you will be compiling everything from source.