You know, immutable enterprise systems.

I installed HeliumOS (Almalinux bootc) on a corebooted Chromebook. Works really well, but audio needs to be configured.

The script needs a recent python which is not available there.

Go and rust can be installed for a user only. Is there something similar for python?

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    3·
    7 hours ago

    If you can install nix (you can install it per user) then you can have whatever you want in a temporary shell with nix-shell -p python

    nix profile install nixpkgs#python if you want it actually installed

    Home manager is also entirely user level I believe and lets you use a declarative config too

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
      1·
      1 hour ago

      I tried to get install instructions for home-manager and they only had them if you are already on nix?

      I didnt get it

    • Shareni@programming.dev
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Home-manager > nix profile

      Also, nix-shell is supposed to be used for debugging, and nix shell/run/develop for using packages without installing them

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Does home manager work standalone without having nix first? I’ve never installed it on non-nixos

        Nix shell is absolutely for running packages without installing them it literally tells you to do that in the terminal hint