How to Install librengine on nixOS Latest

librengine is an open-source game engine that aims to be lean, modular and efficient, while offering powerful features. This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install librengine on the latest version of nixOS.

Prerequisites

Before you can start with the installation process, you need to make sure that your system meets the following prerequisites:

Steps to install librengine

  1. First, we need to ensure that the nix package manager is up to date. Open your terminal and run the following command:
sudo nix-channel --update &&
sudo nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix &&
sudo nix-env --upgrade
  1. Next, we need to download the source code of librengine. You can do this by using the git clone command:
git clone https://github.com/liameno/librengine.git
  1. Now we need to navigate to the directory where the source code of librengine is located.
cd librengine
  1. Once we are in the right directory, it's time to build the librengine package using the nix package manager. Run the following command:
nix-env -if default.nix
  1. Wait for the installation process to finish. It may take a while depending on your system's processing power and internet speed.

  2. Once the installation is complete, we can now test if the package was installed successfully. Run the following command:

librengine
  1. If no errors were displayed, then librengine is up and running on your nixOS system.

Conclusion

That concludes our tutorial on how to install librengine on the latest version of nixOS. librengine is a powerful game engine that offers many features for game developers. By following the above steps, you should now have librengine installed on your nixOS system. If you encounter any issues during the installation process, please refer to their documentation or GitHub page for more information.

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