Moving from Homebrew to Nix Package Manager

Sat, 16 Feb 2019 18:30:40 -0700

As all my friends, colleagues and followers know I am very big on functional programming, so when I heard about nixOS and the nix package manager (A Purely Functional package manager) I really wanted to find out more about it.

Quote from Nix

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.

Using pyenv for Python projects

Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:06:03 -0500

Using pyenv to manage your virtual environments makes working on multiple projects, each using a different version of python a breeze.

I do all my development on an Apple Macbook running Yosemite and my production environment is a VPS from Linode running CentOS 7.

Here some simple notes on how I setup and use pyenv :

Installing on Mac OS X

Install using homebrew

brew install pyenv pyenv-virtualenv

Update your shell profile (.bashrc or .zshrc) adding the following to it (and restart your terminal)

Developer Tools on Salar Rahmanian

Moving from Homebrew to Nix Package Manager

Using pyenv for Python projects

Installing on Mac OS X