Intro

A description in code of my NixOS setup.

Screenshot

For info on the background image try Googling "Makoto Shinkai The Place Promised in Our Early Days".

Install

(NOTE: This will usually be out of date if I haven't done a fresh install in a while)

1. Install NixOS.

2. Download this repo.

3. Grep this repo for traveller (my username) and change it to what's appropriate for your computer. This is a very rough project and /home/traveller is hardcoded far more than it needs to be. You may also want to place this repo at ~/config or have a symlink from there pointed at this repo, some code may assume that's where the repo is located.

4. (optional) Grep the config files for "cron" and remove any cron jobs you don't want.

5. Install stow.

6. ./link_dotfiles

7. ./link_bin

8. Setup nixpkgs:

   cat version.txt
   >> 14.04.414.351aec7 (Baboon)
   
   git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git
   cd nixpkgs
   # Replace 351aec7 below with the appropriate value from the output of `cat version.txt`:
   git checkout 351aec7
   

9. From /etc/nixos/configuration.nix import this repo's ./shared.nix.

   Alternately if you want to add your machine-specific configuration to this repo, make a folder for your machine in this repo following the example of ./desktop. Add your configuration.nix and hardware-configuration.nix to it. Modify your configuration import this repo's ./shared.nix, then change /etc/nixos/configuration.nix to import your machine-specific config, eg:

   {
     imports = [ /home/traveller/config/machine/desktop/configuration.nix ];
   }

10. From root: nixos-rebuild switch -I nixpkgs=<path_to_nixpkgs>

Post-Install

1. Make sure your shell aliases are loaded with exec fish, then run background-fill wallpaper.png.

2. mkdir ~/screenshots