Edit: my issues came from copying source .nix configurations for the pig manager, not configurations that I would include on my computer. Finding how to include what where was much easier with search.nixos.org

Hi, I’ve finally cleansed my system of windows and switched fully into nix. I want to learn this OS the right way, but have ran into some noob troubles. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ideally, these changes are things I would include in my configuration.nix

  • How to install electrum wallet on nixos? I found this default.nix for electrum and thought it would be as easy as nix-build default.nix but was mistaken. It says " cannot evaluate a function that has an argument without a value (‘fetchurl’) Nix attempted to evaluate a function as a top level expression" but on a later line that value is inputted to the function (if I understand right)

src = fetchurl { url = "https://download.electrum.org/${version}/Electrum-${version}.tar.gz"; sha256 = "sha256-BxxC1xVKToUjgBo4mEeK9Tdhbd/+doHcTTJsXDtaELg="; };

  • How to install KVantum Theme Manager? I was following this guide and tried to add gcc/g++ and the x11 package dependencies but I get undefined variables for the x11 libraries. Some recommend using stdenv.mkDerivations but I haven’t used that much nix before so I’m not certain if I should be going down that rabbit hole
      • ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pubOPEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I’ve been running an Ubuntu base for years, but windows kept overwriting the boot loader so I finally cracked. Been wanting to switch to Debian for a while and nix seemed desirable for its functional design paradigm

          • ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pubOPEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            It’s gonna be a long transition haha, but I’ve learned a lot about OSs over the years just using CLI in Ubuntu, I’m looking forward to nix as something I’ll struggle with for the next few years haha

  • OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    I’m finding some details in this stackoverflow question

    According to the question’s first comment,

    Those default arguments get filled in when you’re invoked with pkgs.callPackage, but nix-build doesn’t do that. –

    Charles Duffy Dec 2, 2022 at 16:05

    Then one of the answers says:

    This worked for me:

    nix-build -E ‘with import {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}’

    Definitely try this more complicated nix-build command.

    I don’t currently have a NixOS system myself, though, so I’m not really able to test it out. I switched back to Debian because it’s more user friendly and I’m not quite ready for NixOS.