Installing packages

As shown in the previous section, you can produce a list of Nix installables by using the --installable option.

Not only you can feed that list into nix shell but also to any other nix-cli like nix profile install. Allowing you to install a set of tools into a directory of your choose along with all its dependencies in just one command.

The following example will install cargo and glibc. Notice that for packages providing many outputs (like glibc static, and dev headers) you can specify output selectors.

> mkdir tmp
> nix profile install --profile $PWD/tmp/my-tools $(nix-versions -i cargo@latest glibc^static,dev@latest)
> export PATH=$PWD/tmp/my-tools/bin:$PATH
> which cargo
/home/foo/tmp/my-tools/bin/cargo