Installing Determinate

Determinate is an all-in-one Nix (opens in a new tab) toolchain that includes:

Determinate Systems (opens in a new tab)' validated Nix (opens in a new tab), configured to be used with FlakeHub (opens in a new tab) and FlakeHub Cache (opens in a new tab)
Determinate Nixd, a daemon that makes your experience of installing and using Nix (opens in a new tab) dramatically more smooth

You can install it in a variety of platform-specific ways.

Using the command line on macOS or Linux

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L \
  https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install --determinate

On macOS with Determinate.pkg

Download and run the latest Determinate package from install.determinate.systems (opens in a new tab).

The Determinate package is fully signed and notarized. Re-running the installer is safe and upgrades Determinate in place.

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Deploying to a fleet with Mobile Device Management (opens in a new tab) (MDM)? See Deploy Determinate with MDM.

NixOS

NixOS (opens in a new tab) users can upgrade to Determinate with the Determinate flake.

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We recommend not using a follows directive for Nixpkgs (inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs") in conjunction with the Determinate flake, as it leads to cache misses for artifacts otherwise available from FlakeHub Cache (opens in a new tab).

flake.nix

{
  inputs.determinate.url = "https://flakehub.com/f/DeterminateSystems/determinate/0.1";
  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "https://flakehub.com/f/NixOS/nixpkgs/0.2405.0";
 
  outputs = { determinate, nixpkgs, ... }: {
    nixosConfigurations.my-workstation = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      system = "x86_64-linux"; # Or another Linux system type
      modules = [
        # Load the Determinate module
        determinate.nixosModules.default
      ];
    };
  };
}

Then rebuild your system:

nixos-rebuild switch --flake /path/to/configuration

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