Edit: my issues came from copying source .nix configurations for the pig manager, not configurations that I would include on my computer. Finding how to include what where was much easier with search.nixos.org

Hi, I’ve finally cleansed my system of windows and switched fully into nix. I want to learn this OS the right way, but have ran into some noob troubles. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ideally, these changes are things I would include in my configuration.nix

  • How to install electrum wallet on nixos? I found this default.nix for electrum and thought it would be as easy as nix-build default.nix but was mistaken. It says " cannot evaluate a function that has an argument without a value (‘fetchurl’) Nix attempted to evaluate a function as a top level expression" but on a later line that value is inputted to the function (if I understand right)

src = fetchurl { url = "https://download.electrum.org/${version}/Electrum-${version}.tar.gz"; sha256 = "sha256-BxxC1xVKToUjgBo4mEeK9Tdhbd/+doHcTTJsXDtaELg="; };

  • How to install KVantum Theme Manager? I was following this guide and tried to add gcc/g++ and the x11 package dependencies but I get undefined variables for the x11 libraries. Some recommend using stdenv.mkDerivations but I haven’t used that much nix before so I’m not certain if I should be going down that rabbit hole
  • OwenEverbindeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m finding some details in this stackoverflow question

    According to the question’s first comment,

    Those default arguments get filled in when you’re invoked with pkgs.callPackage, but nix-build doesn’t do that. –

    Charles Duffy Dec 2, 2022 at 16:05

    Then one of the answers says:

    This worked for me:

    nix-build -E ‘with import {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}’

    Definitely try this more complicated nix-build command.

    I don’t currently have a NixOS system myself, though, so I’m not really able to test it out. I switched back to Debian because it’s more user friendly and I’m not quite ready for NixOS.