home-manager Tutorial Series

Structure of these tutorials

Our tutorials are deliberately designed to give a quick overview of a topic, and then link to other resources for further reading. Think of them as providing a “guided tour” of the topic in question, as well as providing a learning progression.

A tutorial series on home-manager,

Setting it up using https://github.com/juspay/nix-dev-home
Basics (packages, dotfiles)
Services (macOS and Ubuntu)

Links to this page

Tutorials

home-manager Tutorial Series
First steps with Nix

If you want to manage your system using Nix, see home-manager Tutorial Series (if you are on macOS or non-NixOS Linux) or NixOS Tutorial Series (if you are on NixOS).

[!tip] Pinning nixpkgs To avoid the aforementioned automatic update, you can manually pin the registry entry for nixpkgs. In home-manager, we will see an automatic and declarative way of doing this (through flake inputs).

[!warning] Declarative package management This section explains how to install a package imperatively. For a better way of installing packages (declaratively), see home-manager.