ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoThree Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglypierrezemb.frexternal-linkmessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down16 cross-posted to: linux@programming.devlinux@programming.dev
arrow-up1179arrow-down1external-linkThree Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglypierrezemb.frikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square106fedilink cross-posted to: linux@programming.devlinux@programming.dev
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoIf you download a binary you can just steam-run it and it just works
minus-squareSolarBoy@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThis command will just run an executable file on nix. Normally only executables which are installed from the package manager will work. appimage-run is another option. Which can be used to run, you guessed it, appimages
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoBut appimages will complain about unmet dependencies, so usually they don’t work
If you download a binary you can just
steam-run
it and it just works?
This command will just run an executable file on nix. Normally only executables which are installed from the package manager will work.
appimage-run
is another option. Which can be used to run, you guessed it, appimagesBut appimages will complain about unmet dependencies, so usually they don’t work