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<para>The installation path can be specified by passing the
<option>--prefix=<replaceable>prefix</replaceable></option> to
<command>configure</command>. The default installation directory is
<filename>/nix</filename>. You can change this to any location you
like. You must have write permission to the
<filename>/usr/local</filename>. You can change this to any location
you like. You must have write permission to the
<replaceable>prefix</replaceable> path.</para>
<warning><para>It is best <emphasis>not</emphasis> to change the
installation prefix from its default, since doing so makes it
impossible to use pre-built binaries from the standard Nixpkgs
channels.</para></warning>
<para>Nix keeps its <emphasis>store</emphasis> (the place where
packages are stored) in <filename>/nix/store</filename> by default.
This can be changed using
<option>--with-store-dir=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>.</para>
<para>If you want to rebuilt the documentation, pass the full path to
<warning><para>It is best <emphasis>not</emphasis> to change the Nix
store from its default, since doing so makes it impossible to use
pre-built binaries from the standard Nixpkgs channels — that is, all
packages will need to be built from source.</para></warning>
<para>Nix keeps state (such as its database and log files) in
<filename>/nix/var</filename> by default. This can be changed using
<option>--localstatedir=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>.</para>
<para>If you want to rebuild the documentation, pass the full path to
the DocBook RELAX NG schemas and to the DocBook XSL stylesheets using
the
<option>--with-docbook-rng=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>
@ -160,27 +169,26 @@ options.</para>
</section>
<section><title>Installing from RPMs</title>
<section><title>Installing a binary distribution</title>
<para>RPM packages of Nix can be downloaded from <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/" />. These RPMs should work for most
fairly recent releases of SuSE and Red Hat Linux. They have been
known to work work on SuSE Linux 8.1 and 9.0, and Red Hat 9.0. In
fact, it should work on any RPM-based Linux distribution based on
<literal>glibc</literal> 2.3 or later.</para>
<para>Once downloaded, the RPMs can be installed or upgraded using
<command>rpm -U</command>. For example,
<para>RPM and Deb packages of Nix for a number of different versions
of Fedora, openSUSE, Debian and Ubuntu can be downloaded from <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/" />. Once downloaded, the RPMs can be
installed or upgraded using <command>rpm -U</command>. For example,
<screen>
$ rpm -U nix-0.5pre664-1.i386.rpm</screen>
$ rpm -U nix-0.13pre18104-1.i386.rpm</screen>
Likewise, for a Deb package:
<screen>
$ dpkg -i nix_0.13pre18104-1_amd64.deb</screen>
</para>
<para>The RPMs install into the directory <filename>/nix</filename>.
Nix can be uninstalled using <command>rpm -e nix</command>. After
this it will be necessary to manually remove the Nix store and other
auxiliary data:
<para>Nix can be uninstalled using <command>rpm -e nix</command> or
<command>dpkg -r nix</command>. After this you should manually remove
the Nix store and other auxiliary data, if desired:
<screen>
$ rm -rf /nix/store
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</section>
<!-- TODO: should be updated
<section><title>Upgrading Nix through Nix</title>
<para>You can install the latest stable version of Nix through Nix
@ -203,6 +212,7 @@ installation</link> by clicking on the package links at <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/full-index-nix.html" />.</para>
</section>
-->
<section><title>Security</title>