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@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ nix-bundle is a way to package Nix attributes into single-file executables.
* Can be run by non-root users
* No runtime
* Distro agnostic
* Completely portable
* No installation
## Getting started
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Hello, world!
```
This is a standalone file that is completely portable! As long as you are running a same architecture Linux kernel and have a shell interpreter it will run. No external dependencies are required besides a compatible Linux kernel and a shell interpreter.
This is a standalone file that is completely portable! As long as you are running the same architecture Linux kernel and have a shell interpreter available it will run.
Some others to try:
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./nix-bundle.sh emacs /bin/emacs
```
## Self-bundling
## Self-bundling (meta)
Startin with v0.1.3, you can bundle nix-bundle! To do this, just use nix-bundle normally:
Starting with v0.1.3, you can bundle nix-bundle! To do this, just use nix-bundle normally:
```sh
NIX_PATH="nixpkgs=https://github.com/matthewbauer/nixpkgs/archive/nix-bundle.tar.gz" ./nix-bundle.sh nix-bundle /bin/nix-bundle
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## [Experimental] Create AppImage executables from Nix expressions
"nix-bundle.sh" tends to create fairly large outputs. This is largely because nix-bundle.sh uses gzip compression and AppImage uses lzma compression. Anyway, you can create a compliant "AppImage" using the "nix2appimage.sh" script:
"nix-bundle.sh" tends to create fairly large outputs. This is largely because nix-bundle.sh "extracts" its payload up front. AppImage uses a different method where extraction only takes place when the file is accessed (through FUSE and SquashFS). You can now create a compliant "AppImage" using the "nix2appimage.sh" script:
```sh
./nix2appimage.sh emacs
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These may take a while because of the large closure size.
Note that these do not currently work out of the box with NixOS. Other Linux distros should work.
## Comparison with AppImage, FlatPak, Snappy
| Name | Distro-agnostic | Runtime required | Root required | Storage |