How to Install and Uninstall nix-bin Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: November 07,2024

You can also install and uninstall the nix-bin on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "nix-bin" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install nix-bin on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "nix-bin" package

Learn how to uninstall nix-bin on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the nix-bin package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: nix-bin
Source: nix (2.8.0-1.1)
Version: 2.8.0-1.1+b1
Installed-Size: 12947
Maintainer: Thomas Koch
Architecture: amd64
Depends: bzip2, curl, libdbd-sqlite3-perl, libwww-curl-perl, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), perl, xz-utils, libarchive13 (>= 3.2.1), libboost-context1.74.0 (>= 1.74.0), libbrotli1 (>= 0.6.0), libbsd0 (>= 0.7.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcpuid16 (>= 0.6.0), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.28.0), libgc1 (>= 1:7.2d), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libreadline8 (>= 6.0), libseccomp2 (>= 1.0.1), libsodium23 (>= 0.7.0), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.14.0), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 12)
Recommends: nix-setup-systemd
Description: Purely functional package manager (binaries)
Description-md5: 94e3e72eab4496106b0a66681c8e7956
Homepage: https://nixos.org/nix
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/nix/nix-bin_2.8.0-1.1+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 3140544
MD5sum: c819efb2f37da606c977b26a21e36688
SHA256: dcafc01ad2cac92d54b58a0d27a474c9c486092c5abdc41561acf90124f51f8b