Martin's dotfiles and Nix config
These are my dotfiles. There are many like them, but these are mine.
Bootstrapping a new machine
On a new mac, you might need to install git.
xcode-select --install
Verify the installation by running
xcode-select -p
should output the following
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
Clone this repo. It might be a good idea to clone using HTTPS if you don’t have your SSH keys configured. I store my SSH key on a Yubikey for portability but that setup relies on some of the stuff that’s configured in here. HTTPS is a safe bet. You can always fix your local git config later on using something like
git config [email protected]:.insteadof https://github.com/
Install nix on macOS
In order to perform a multi-user install of nix on macOS, follow these
steps.
The first order of business is to make sure diskutil is in your
$PATH. If it isn’t, execute
export PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH
to add it. Now you can go ahead and run the installer
sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
This should take you throught the process in a nice and straight-forward way. Once the installation finishes, you can verify it by opening a new terminal, and executing
nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
It’s possible that this won’t work straight away, and you may get something like
error: could not set permissions on '/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user' to 755: Operation not permitted
Don’t worry. The issue is very likely that the nix-daemon isn’t up and
running just yet. Give it a few seconds and try again.
Flakes
With Nix installed, we’re ready to bootstrap and install the actual configuration. Flakes is finally supported in the latest versions of Nix, so from the root of the checkout out repo we should be able to go ahead and run
nix build \
--extra-experimental-features nix-command \
--extra-experimental-features flakes \
.#darwinConfigurations.bootstrap-x86.system
./result/sw/bin/darwin-rebuild switch --flake .#bootstrap-x86
Then open up a new terminal session and run
darwin-rebuild switch --flake .#macbook
Tada! Everything should be installed and ready to go.