How to Install Conduit on NixOS Latest

Conduit is a memory-safe, non-blocking networking framework for Rust programming language. In this tutorial, we will cover the steps to install Conduit on the latest version of NixOS.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• A running instance of NixOS Latest

Steps to Install Conduit

1. Open the terminal on your NixOS Latest instance.

2. Run the following command to update the package list:

$ sudo nix-channel --update

3. Next, we need to add the nixpkgs channel to the configuration by running:

$ sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixpkgs

4. Run the following command to update the channel:

$ sudo nix-channel --update

5. Now, we can install the Conduit package by running:

$ sudo nix-env -i conduit

6. Once the installation is complete, you can verify the installation by checking the version of Conduit:

$ conduit --version

Conclusion

That's it! In this tutorial, we covered the steps to install Conduit on NixOS Latest. You can now start using Conduit to build your Rust networking applications.

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