Preface

This is a ported version of the Nix Pills, a series of blog posts written by Luca Bruno (aka Lethalman) and originally published in 2014 and 2015. It provides a tutorial introduction into the Nix package manager and Nixpkgs package collection, in the form of short chapters called 'pills'.

Since the Nix Pills are considered a classic introduction to Nix, an effort to port them to the current format was led by Graham Christensen (aka grahamc / gchristensen) and other contributors in 2017.

For an up-to-date version, please visit https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/. An EPUB version is also available.

If you encounter problems, please report them on the nixos/nix-pills issue tracker.