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<title>Overview</title>
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<para>
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This chapter provides a guided tour of Nix.
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</para>
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<sect1>
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<title>Basic package management</title>
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<para>
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Let's start from the perspective of an end-user. Common operations at
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this level are to install and remove packages, ask what packages are
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installed or available for installation, and so on.
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</para>
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<para>
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To install packages, a <emphasis>Nix expression</emphasis> is required
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that tells Nix how to build that package. There is a <ulink
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url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nixpkgs-trunk.tar.bz2'>standard
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distribution of Nix expressions</ulink> for many common packages.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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