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* Various updates.

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@ -507,19 +507,16 @@ click on it, and it will be installed with all the necessary
dependencies.</para>
<para>For instance, you can go to <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable/" /> —
or to any older release of Nix Packages — and click on any link for
the individual packages for your platform (say, <link
xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.10pre6622/pkgs/subversion-1.4.0-i686-linux.nixpkg'><literal>subversion-1.4.0</literal>
for <literal>i686-linux</literal></link>). The first time you do
this, your browser will ask what to do with
<literal>application/nix-package</literal> files. You should open
them with <filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename>. This
will open a window that asks you to confirm that you want to install
the package. When you answer <literal>Y</literal>, the package and
all its dependencies will be installed. This is a binary deployment
mechanism — you get packages pre-compiled for the selected platform
type.</para>
xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk/channel/latest"
/> and click on any link for the individual packages for your
platform. The first time you do this, your browser will ask what to
do with <literal>application/nix-package</literal> files. You should
open them with <filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename>.
This will open a window that asks you to confirm that you want to
install the package. When you answer <literal>Y</literal>, the
package and all its dependencies will be installed. This is a binary
deployment mechanism — you get packages pre-compiled for the selected
platform type.</para>
<para>You can also install <literal>application/nix-package</literal>
files from the command line directly. See <xref