Nix Package Manager Install on Alpine Linux

1 peter_d_sherman 1 5/30/2025, 12:06:57 PM gist.github.com ↗

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peter_d_sherman · 1d ago
Install the Nix Package Manager -- on Alpine Linux?

Apparently possible!

If so, then someone would get the ("Small. Simple. Secure.")-ness (lightweightedness) of Alpine Linux (https://www.alpinelinux.org/) -- coupled with the 120,000+ packages of the NixOS Package Repository (https://search.nixos.org/packages) ...

What's not to love about that pairing?

(Yeah, there might be a few tech issues -- but even if there are, then it's not as if they couldn't be worked out in the future...)

Now if only we could add the OpenBSD (https://www.openbsd.org/) kernel to that mix...

Related:

https://bedrocklinux.org/

https://suckless.org/

https://github.com/nix-community/NixNG

https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck

https://pkgs.org/