ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoThree Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglypierrezemb.frexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10 cross-posted to: lobsters@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-linkThree Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglypierrezemb.frikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square18linkfedilink cross-posted to: lobsters@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoIf you download a binary you can just steam-run it and it just works
minus-squareSolarBoy@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThis command will just run an executable file on nix. Normally only executables which are installed from the package manager will work. appimage-run is another option. Which can be used to run, you guessed it, appimages
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoBut appimages will complain about unmet dependencies, so usually they don’t work
If you download a binary you can just
steam-run
it and it just works?
This command will just run an executable file on nix. Normally only executables which are installed from the package manager will work.
appimage-run
is another option. Which can be used to run, you guessed it, appimagesBut appimages will complain about unmet dependencies, so usually they don’t work