Installing ass on nixOS Latest

In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install ass from the https://github.com/tycrek/ass repository on nixOS Latest.

Step 1: Install Nix Package Manager

If you haven't already installed Nix, you can install it using the following command:

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

Verify that Nix has been installed correctly by running:

$ nix-env --version

You should see a version number displayed on the terminal.

Step 2: Clone ass repository

Next, we need to clone the ass repository from https://github.com/tycrek/ass:

$ git clone https://github.com/tycrek/ass.git

This will download the repository to your local machine.

Step 3: Build ass using Nix

Change into the directory where the ass repository was downloaded:

$ cd ass

Now we will build the package using Nix:

$ nix-env -f default.nix -i ass

This will build and install the ass package on your system.

Step 4: Verify Installation

We can now verify that the installation was successful by running:

$ which ass

This command should return the path to the ass executable.

/home/user-name/.nix-profile/bin/ass

Conclusion

You have now successfully installed ass on nixOS Latest. You can start using it by running ass on the terminal.