Installing DragonFly on nixOS Latest

DragonFly is a tool for backing up and restoring disk partitions. It is available on GitHub at https://github.com/corecode/dma. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing DragonFly on nixOS Latest using nix-shell.

Prerequisites

Before you can install DragonFly on nixOS Latest, you need to fulfill the following prerequisites:

A computer running nixOS Latest
Internet connectivity
Basic command-line knowledge

Installation steps

Follow these steps to install DragonFly on nixOS Latest:

Open a terminal window on your nixOS Latest machine.
Clone the DragonFly repository from GitHub by running the following command:
```
git clone https://github.com/corecode/dma.git
```
Change the current directory to the DragonFly repository by running the following command:
```
cd dma
```

Open the default.nix file in your preferred text editor and add the following lines at the end of the file:

buildInputs = [
  nixpkgs.git
  nixpkgs.gawk
  nixpkgs.gcc
  nixpkgs.linuxHeaders
];

shellHook = ''
  export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wno-deprecated-declarations"
'';

Save and close the default.nix file.
Run the following command to start a nix-shell environment:
```
nix-shell
```
Once the nix-shell environment is set up, run the following command to build DragonFly:
```
make
```
After the build process completes successfully, run the following command to install DragonFly:
```
make install
```
Verify that DragonFly is installed and working by running the following command:
```
sudo which dma
```
If the output is /usr/local/bin/dma, it means that DragonFly is installed and working correctly.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed DragonFly on nixOS Latest using nix-shell.