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@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ On Alpine, you first have to add the "testing" repo.
This is part of the edge branch.
As far as I know, you _could in theory_ get away with just adding the "testing" repo and not moving the rest of your system over to edge, but I highly doubt that will do any good for the stability of your system.
Moving your system over to the edge branch is done by opening `/etc/apk/repositories`, uncommenting the mirrors referring edge in the and commenting out the lines referring to (at time of writing) `3.16`.
Moving your system over to the edge branch is done by opening `/etc/apk/repositories`, uncommenting the mirrors referring to `edge` and commenting out the lines referring to (at time of writing) version `3.16`.
From there, run...
```sh
doas apk -U upgrade
```
...to move your system over to edge.
...to move your system over to `edge`.
Now installing Nix can be done as usual with:
```sh
@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
You can probably also add stable channels, but I haven't tried that, as one of the reasons I want to use the Nix package manager on other distros than NixOS is for it's newer packages.
(I am aware that the stable channel of NixOS is a lot newer than the Debian stable branch, which is precisely why I don't want to to be my base system on machines where I have Debian installed.)
> "Doesn't this mixing of packagemanagers cause a huge amount of anomalies?"
No, that's part of the beauty of Nix.
Pretty much everything it does lives in `/nix` and is softlinked into place, meaning it never interferes with your existing package manager.
## Syncing channels
To sync your (just added) channel(s), run:

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