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[<img src="https://nixos.org/logo/nixos-hires.png" width="500px" alt="logo" />](https://nixos.org/nixos)
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[](https://www.codetriage.com/nixos/nixpkgs)
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Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package
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manager. It is periodically built and tested by the [Hydra](https://hydra.nixos.org/)
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build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add
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[nixpkgs-channels](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git) as a remote:
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```
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% git remote add channels https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
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```
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For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
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custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. `nixos-18.09` for the latest
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release and `nixos-unstable` for the latest successful build of master:
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```
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% git remote update channels
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% git rebase channels/nixos-18.09
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```
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For pull requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs `master`.
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[NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) Linux distribution source code is located inside
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`nixos/` folder.
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* [NixOS installation instructions](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#ch-installation)
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* [Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)](https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language)
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* [Manual (How to write packages for Nix)](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/)
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* [Manual (NixOS)](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/)
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* [Community maintained wiki](https://nixos.wiki/)
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* [Continuous package builds for unstable/master](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/trunk-combined)
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* [Continuous package builds for 18.09 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-18.09)
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* [Tests for unstable/master](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/tested#tabs-constituents)
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* [Tests for 18.09 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-18.09/tested#tabs-constituents)
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Communication:
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* [Discourse Forum](https://discourse.nixos.org/)
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* [IRC - #nixos on freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos)
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Note: MIT license does not apply to the packages built by Nixpkgs, merely to
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the package descriptions (Nix expressions, build scripts, and so on). It also
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might not apply to patches included in Nixpkgs, which may be derivative works
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of the packages to which they apply. The aforementioned artifacts are all
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covered by the licenses of the respective packages.
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