I'm wondering how to install the psql command on NixOS. To be clear: I'm only interested in the client, not the server. I've looked at the derivation but couldn't find any pointers. Is there a wa...

I'm trying to use nix-shell with a shell.nix file to get a clean development environment but I don't know how to change the location of the temporary build directories. The buildInputs packages are...

For modern versions of Yarn, aka Yarn Berry, the preferred installation is through Corepack, and Corepack is included by default with Node.js installs (>=16.10). See https://yarnpkg.com/getting-...

A derivation takes lots of arguments but only one of them, builder, is executable right? And nix-shell doesn't really execute the builder, which means there's no way of running commands such as exp...

If I build my Haskell project under nix-shell it gives error about missing zlib. If I build the project in nix-shell using nix-shell -p zlib then the project sees zlib and builds successfully. Ho...

What's the shortest shell.nix equivalent of the following cmdline arguments? nix-shell -p "haskell.packages.ghc865.ghcWithPackages (p: [p.ghci-pretty])" This works, but it's verbose: # contents...