Searching for a Package
To search for a package, you can use the nix-env -qa command followed by the package name. For example:
nix-env -qa firefox
Nix – The Purely Functional Package Manager for Linux
Nix is a purely functional package manager for Linux, that serves to provide a purely functional approach to any system’s software package management. Due to its functional and declarative approach, it is lauded for its capacity to:
- Support the installation of multiple versions of a given package.
- Enable atomic upgrades and rollbacks of a given package.
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