The Nix Hour

Currently Playing: The Nix Hour #29 [Python libraries in overlays, switching to home-manager on Ubuntu]

The Nix Hour is an open beginner-oriented Q&A-style lecture on Nix, where you can bring your questions and we’ll answer them with more context, examples, alternatives, tradeoffs and related topics. Jitsi Meeting to ask questions directly: https://meet.jit.si/nix-hour Matrix room for questions, feedback and notifications: https://matrix.to/#/%23nix-hour:matrix.org Issue tracker for asynchronous questions: https://github.com/tweag/nix-hour/issues Previous sessions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzwHTVJlRc8yjlx4VR4LU5A5O44og9in For more information and updates, check out https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nix-hour-a-weekly-nix-qa-lecture-by-tweag/22767 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:12 Question: how to package Python library in flake 0:02:09 Adding Python library in nixpkgs 0:02:36 Adding Python library in an overlay 0:04:08 Using pythonPackageExtensions in an overlay 0:10:35 Handing off to Yuriy 0:11:15 Intro to home-manager on Ubuntu 0:12:57 Editing Nix without editor support is hard 0:14:46 Installing neovim 0:16:50 Looking at Nix LSP servers 0:18:15 Installing nvim-lspconfig 0:23:24 Updating neovim on Ubuntu 0:25:22 Questions from the chat 0:25:50 nvim-lspconfig configures highlighting 0:26:01 Looking for ways to install rnix-lsp 0:26:47 Taking stock of all package manager that we're using 0:28:00 Difficulties with Ubuntu repositories on ARM 0:28:42 Installing nix 0:30:52 Installing cargo 0:32:35 Installing rnix-lsp 0:35:30 Demonstrating rnix-lsp 0:38:24 Suming it up and why we should use home-manager 0:39:36 Introduction to home-manager 0:45:05 Installing and configuring neovim with home-manager 0:48:00 Installing nvim-lspconfig with home-manager 0:52:25 How home-manager places files in ~ 0:55:05 Installing rnix-lsp with home-manager 0:58:08 Configuring git with home-manager