Installing FPM on NixOS Latest

FPM (Effing Package Management) is a tool used to build packages for multiple platforms with different packaging formats. This tutorial walks you through installing FPM on NixOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before installing FPM, you will need:

• A running instance of NixOS Latest with administrative access.
• A working internet connection.

Step 1: Update the package list

Before installing new packages, it's a good idea to update the package list:

$ sudo nix-channel --update

Step 2: Install FPM dependencies

Before installing FPM, some dependencies need to be installed:

$ sudo nix-env -iA nixpkgs.gcc nixpkgs.libffi nixpkgs.ruby_3

Step 3: Install FPM

Now that dependencies are installed, we can install FPM:

$ sudo gem install fpm

This command installs the latest version of FPM from RubyGems.

Step 4: Verify installation

Verify that FPM has been installed successfully by running:

$ fpm --version

This command should output the version of FPM that has been installed.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have installed FPM on NixOS Latest by installing dependencies and then installing FPM from RubyGems. FPM is now ready to use for building packages across different platforms.