How to Install Chowdown.io on NixOS

Chowdown.io is a command-line tool for creating beautiful and responsive recipe websites. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the steps to install Chowdown.io on NixOS latest.

Step 1: Install Nix

Firstly, you need to install Nix on your NixOS machine. Nix is a package manager that provides a reproducible and isolated environment for installing and managing software packages.

To install Nix, open a terminal and run the following command:

$ sudo curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Step 2: Clone Chowdown.io

Next, you need to clone the Chowdown.io repository from GitHub. You can do this by running the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/clarklab/chowdown.git

This will create a chowdown directory in your current working directory that contains the Chowdown.io code.

Step 3: Install Dependencies

Before building and installing Chowdown, you need to install its dependencies that include Python and Java.

You can do this by adding the following lines to your /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file:

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  python37
  openjdk
];

Then, you can apply your configuration changes by running:

$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch

Step 4: Build and Install Chowdown

Next, navigate to the cloned chowdown directory and build and install Chowdown into your system.

$ cd chowdown
$ sudo -E nix-env -i -f default.nix

The -E flag preserves your environment variables, which is necessary for Chowdown to work.

Once installed, you can verify that Chowdown is working by running the following command:

$ chowdown --version

This command should output the version of Chowdown that you just installed.

Conclusion

That's it! You've successfully installed Chowdown.io on NixOS latest. With Chowdown, you can easily create beautiful and responsive recipe websites. Happy cooking!