DailyTxT is a command-line tool developed for writing daily journals in plain text format. It is available on the GitHub repository https://github.com/PhiTux/DailyTxT. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing DailyTxT on NixOS Latest.
Before we begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
Open your terminal and login to your NixOS system.
Update the package list with the following command:
sudo nix-channel --update
Install the required packages by running:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.git glibc openssl libedit
Clone the DailyTxT repository from GitHub using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/PhiTux/DailyTxT.git
Change to the DailyTxT directory:
cd DailyTxT/
Run the following command to build the application:
nix-build
Once the build is finished, DailyTxT will be available in the result/bin
directory. You can run it using the following command:
./result/bin/dailytxt
Replace dailytxt
with daily
if you want to use the old name.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed DailyTxT on your NixOS system.
In this tutorial, we have covered the steps to install DailyTxT on NixOS Latest. You can use this powerful tool to write daily journals in plain text format.
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