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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="sec-obtaining-source">
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<title>Obtaining a Source Distribution</title>
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<para>The source tarball of the most recent stable release can be
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downloaded from the <link
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nix/download.html">Nix homepage</link>.
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You can also grab the <link
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xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/release/latest-finished#tabs-constituents">most
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recent development release</link>.</para>
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<para>Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained
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from its <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix">Git
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repository</link>. For example, the following command will check out
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the latest revision into a directory called
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<filename>nix</filename>:</para>
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<screen>
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$ git clone https://github.com/NixOS/nix</screen>
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<para>Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tags">tags</link> of the
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repository.</para>
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</section> |