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* Various updates.

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@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ to the following chapters.</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Download a source tarball or RPM from <link
xlink:href='http://nixos.org/'/>. Build source
distributions using the regular sequence:
<listitem><para>Download a source tarball, RPM or Deb from <link
xlink:href='http://nixos.org/'/>. Build source distributions using
the regular sequence:
<screen>
$ tar xvfj nix-<replaceable>version</replaceable>.tar.bz2
@ -21,13 +21,21 @@ $ ./configure
$ make
$ make install <lineannotation>(as root)</lineannotation></screen>
This will install Nix in <filename>/nix</filename>. You shouldn't
change the prefix if at all possible since that will make it
impossible to use pre-built binaries from the Nixpkgs channel and
other channels. Alternatively, you could grab an RPM if you're on an
RPM-based system. You should also add
<filename>/nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename> to your
<filename>~/.bashrc</filename> (or some other login
This will install the Nix binaries in <filename>/usr/local</filename>
and keep the Nix store and other state in <filename>/nix</filename>.
You can change the former by specifying
<option>--prefix=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>. The
location of the store can be changed using
<option>--with-store-dir=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>.
However, you shouldn't change the store location, if at all possible,
since that will make it impossible to use pre-built binaries from the
Nixpkgs channel and other channels. The location of the state can be
changed using
<option>--localstatedir=<replaceable>path</replaceable>.</option></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>You should add
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename>
to your <filename>~/.bashrc</filename> (or some other login
file).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Subscribe to the Nix Packages channel.
@ -100,7 +108,7 @@ numbers).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>You can also install specific packages directly from
your web browser. For instance, you can go to <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-unstable-latest/" />
xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk/channel/latest" />
and click on any link for the individual packages for your platform.
Associate <literal>application/nix-package</literal> with the program
<filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename>. A window should