Dnote is a note-taking application that allows you to keep your notes organized, collaborate with others, and access your notes from anywhere. In this tutorial, we are going to walk through the steps required to install Dnote on NixOS Latest.
Before we can install Dnote, we need to have a running instance of NixOS Latest. If you haven't installed NixOS Latest yet, please refer to the official NixOS documentation for installation instructions.
Dnote can be installed via Nix package manager, which is a package management tool for NixOS. Depending on your NixOS configuration and installation options, you may already have Nix installed. If not, you can install it via the official NixOS installation guide.
In most cases, you can install Nix via the command line:
$ curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
For more information on installing Nix, please refer to the official Nix documentation.
Once we have Nix installed on our system, we can use it to install Dnote. Here are the steps to install:
dnote.nix
with the following contents:{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
pkgs.dockerTools.buildLayeredImage {
name = "dnote";
tag = "latest";
configCmd = ''
git clone https://github.com/dnote/cli.git -b optimized-build
cd cli
cargo build --release
install -Dm 755 target/release/dnote $out/bin/dnote
install -Dm 644 completions/dnote.bash $out/share/bash-completion/completions/dnote
install -Dm 644 completions/_dnote $out/share/zsh/site-functions/_dnote
'';
buildInputs = [
pkgs.cargo pkgs.git pkgs.zlib
pkgs.bashInteractive pkgs.zshInteractive pkgs.bash pkgs.zsh
];
extraEnvironment = ''
export CARGO_HOME=$HOME/.cargo
'';
}
Save the file and exit the text editor.
Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where you saved the dnote.nix
file.
Run the following command to build the Dnote image:
$ nix-build dnote.nix
This might take a few minutes to complete, depending on your system configuration and internet speed.
$ docker run -it --rm -v dnote:/root/.dnote mz2/dnote
This command will start a Dnote container in interactive mode, which should allow you to use the Dnote command line interface.
$ dnote --help
This command should display the available Dnote CLI commands.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Dnote on NixOS Latest. You can now use it to manage your notes and collaborate with others. For more information on how to use Dnote, please refer to the official Dnote documentation.
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