This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Geo2tz on NixOS Latest. Geo2tz is a tool used to obtain the timezone of a point from its latitude and longitude coordinates.
Open the terminal window or open the NixOS official shell application from the system.
Geo2tz exists as a repository on GitHub. To download the repository and use the tool, you need to install git on your system.
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.git
Clone the Geo2tz repository from GitHub into your local environment by running:
git clone https://github.com/noandrea/geo2tz.git
Geo2tz is a Rust application, therefore, we need to install Rust on our system.
To install Rust, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.rust
Now, we are ready to build and install Geo2tz using the following commands:
cd geo2tz/
cargo build --release
Then create the symbolic link to the bin/ directory like so:
mkdir -p $HOME/.local/bin && ln -s "$(pwd)/target/release/geo2tz" $HOME/.local/bin/
To test if Geo2tz is working perfectly, run the following command:
geo2tz 41.901514 12.460773
This command outputs the timezone of the point with latitude 41.901514 and longitude 12.460773.
Geo2tz is now successfully installed on your NixOS system, and you can use it to obtain the timezone of any point on the earth's surface using its latitude and longitude values.
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