New to nix-on-droid about nix-on-droid

[Gerschtli]

Essentially you are in a basic nix environment without super user privileges. You can use the manual of nix and nixpkgs on https://nixos.org as a starting point.

Additionally a executable named nix-on-droid is available which tries to mimic nixos-like behaviour (see ~/.config/nixpkgs/nix-on-droid.nix for configuration file).

In the Readme of this repository are some information about how to use nix-on-droid. Unfortunately there is no easy way to search for available options as this project is in an early stage. So you can look into the modules folder for discovering more options.

The recommended setup includes home-manager which is documented quite good. For instructions on how to embed home-manager into nix-on-droid see the Readme.

I hope this helps :)

[Gerschtli]

The issue relating to the missing documentation of available options is #36.

[mrfoxie]

I tried to use this command nix-env -qaP \* and it gave me error like this FAILED

[Gerschtli]

Can you give me more information (e.g. smartphone model, ram size) and a way to reproduce this error beginning from a clean install because for this command works (quite slowly but it works)?

[mrfoxie]

this is my phone vivo 1808 and I tried to reinstall the app by uninstalling it completely and fresh install it. shall I send video on it so that you get to the problem

[Gerschtli]

nix-env -qaP \* is a really inperformant command because it tries to evaluate the whole nixpkgs. I think 2GB of RAM aren't sufficient.

So this is not a fixable issue in nix-on-droid unfortunately..

[lypanov]

Easiest workaround to this issue is to use the website to search: https://search.nixos.org/packages

Even on a Samsung Tab S6 nix based package search is too slow to be useful.

[mrfoxie]

unable to install any packages or cant run nix-env --help

[t184256]

Can you post the output?

nix-env works fine for me provided I have gzip installed. In general, you're supposed to add packages to the configuration file and nix-on-droid switch instead of using nix-env.