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the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in a very long document lacking an overview section. search did not help because it occurs so often. - clarify wording in the definition - add an overview of installable types - add "installable" to glossary - link to definition from occurrences of the term - be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed - installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
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# Examples
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* To get a NAR containing the GNU Hello package:
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```console
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# nix store dump-path nixpkgs#hello > hello.nar
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```
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* To get a NAR from the binary cache https://cache.nixos.org/:
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```console
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# nix store dump-path --store https://cache.nixos.org/ \
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/nix/store/7crrmih8c52r8fbnqb933dxrsp44md93-glibc-2.25 > glibc.nar
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```
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# Description
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This command generates a NAR file containing the serialisation of the
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store path [*installable*](./nix.md#installables). The NAR is written to standard output.
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