Scripts for installing Nix

Various people around the web have rolled their own scripts for installing nix that go beyond the limitations of the recommended install script (curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh). For example, there's a need for scripts to install nix in multi-user mode when running it on top of another distro.

This is our attempt. It is probably not very portable or future proof. However, as a sanity check, the included Dockerfile does make sure that a given release of nix builds in a clean environment.

Related work

Here are some install scripts and/or instructions:

• https://gist.github.com/joepie91/043a51a7b70be5f50f1d
• https://gist.github.com/shajra/12d862220ab7cb9782d2a934d4cb489a
• https://gist.github.com/zefhemel/7300869

There are also some efforts to build Docker images from nix.

This one, for instance, seems to use the nix binary installer on top of Debian:

• https://github.com/datakurre/nix-build-pack-docker