nix for emacs deps on macos

Emacs download site uses nix

 dcaldwell at emacsforosx.com uses nix to manage packages for his build environment.

 

6nok.org

How Fatih uses Nix on macOS

great refs:

My first steps with Nix on Mac OSX as Homebrew replacement by Sebastian Kurfürst

Using Nix on macOS by Stephen Checkoway

Setting up Nix on macOS by Jacek Galowicz

Some notes on using nix by Julia Evans

Use Nix as Package Manager in macOS by ntzyz

 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

using apt or nala

using apt or nala

sudo apt update 

apt list --upgradable

sudo apt upgrade

 sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove 

 

apt list --installed

apt search fastfetch
apt search gcc
apt search python
apt search python | grep installed

Check dependencies of a package in Ubuntu

show dependencies of pkgname

apt show emacsen-common

apt-cache depends emacsen-common


Show pkgs that depend on pkgname

apt-cache rdepends --installed emacsen-common

history -w /dev/stdout | grep apt |sort |uniq >> apt_history.txt
 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fastfetch/stable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zhangsongcui3371/fastfetch
sudo apt install fastfetch

sudo apt remove tlp
 

sudo nala search

 

Show language locales installed:

dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | egrep "^myspell-|^hunspell-"

Build and run Redox OS macos m1

 Build and run Redox OS macos m1

 

https://doc.redox-os.org/book/aarch64.html

https://gist.github.com/willnode/88da35d0c0542276b4631746d8fc3de1

 

 

Podman on MacOS · Kirk Bater

Colima - container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup.

 

The most performant Docker setup on macOS (Apple Silicon M1 ... - Medium

 

 

Redox OS on arm64 Apple

 

8.4. Working with ARM64

RSoC: Porting Redox to ARM (AArch64) — 0x02

RSoC: Porting Redox to ARM (AArch64) — 0x

 

RSoC: Porting Redox to ARM (AArch64) — 0x01

 

Porting the core Redox kernel to arm AArch64: An outline

 @microcolonel’s How-To

 

 

 

 

 

homebrew hints

homebrew hints

homebrew is unuable; it is taking hours to install the prerequisites for emacs29.  Macport is quick in comparison.

 

How to uninstall Homebrew on macOS - Full Guide (2021) - Ralph J. Smit

How to remove all old and outdated brew packages on MacOS

 

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/198623/uninstall-all-programs-installed-by-homebrew

I usually just do: 

brew remove --force $(brew list --formula)

and

brew remove --cask --force $(brew list)

 

 

https://mac.install.guide/homebrew/4

Unleashing the power of Homebrew on MacOS

 

Interview: Max Howell, homebrew

https://sourcegraph.com/podcast/max-howell

 

Funding open source: Max Howell’s vision for developer support using Tea Protocol, CHAI, and cryptocurrency

Ubuntu Multipass for x86 MBP

 

Ubuntu multipass

 

First download the tiny installer:

https://github.com/canonical/multipass/releases 

newer versions don't work on macos Monterey 12.6.7

multipass-1.14.1+mac-Darwin.pkg

Docs:

how to install multipass

https://oscarchou.com/posts/handbook/multipass-command-cheatsheet/

https://medium.com/@karan.bk/modify-multipass-instances-update-resources-and-share-data-with-instance-c17315dd33d0

 https://medium.com/@karan.bk/a-beginners-guide-to-create-and-manage-ubuntu-vms-in-minutes-caa1684d9375

 

https://blog.humphd.org/multipass-on-macos/

https://fromanegg.com/post/2020/02/28/use-ubuntu-on-mac-os-with-multipass/

Using Multipass on Ubuntu with Virtualbox and KVM installed question

launch failed: multipass socket access denied

 https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1437

 

 FYI, the new command is multipass auth. Note you must first issue multipass set local.passphrase as admin to set passphrase (and then enter this same passphrase when issuing the auth command).

H...Gi...4...!

 

A simple GUI Shell for a Multipass VM

 

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-frame-on-macos-including-apple-silicon-m1/28534 

Juju charms

charm-dev

Getting started with Juju 5 

 

Juju Charm develo

 

 

 

 

Installing fastfetch

Neofetch has been abandoned so fastfetch.

https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

 

https://idroot.us/install-fastfetch-ubuntu-24-04/

## sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fastfetch/stable
## ERROR: ppa 'fastfetch/stable' not found (use --login if private) 
 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zhangsongcui3371/fastfetch
sudo apt update 
 
 
old intel hd graphics on i7-4790 reported as Xeon 1200
fastfetch:
GPU: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Con]

Intel HD Graphics 2500 shown as Xeon e3-1200 v2/3rd gen core

neofetch:
GPU: Intel HD Graphics

Install and run inxi for analysis:
inxi -SGx
 
 
Update fastfetch documentation; write python script source: 
https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/issues/830 
https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/pull/1292

 
output: manpage 
 
help2man 

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34516/can-i-create-a-man-page-for-a-script 
https://www.dlab.ninja/2021/10/how-to-write-manpages-with-markdown-and.html
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Parsing-man-pages-for-modern-users 
https://betterprogramming.pub/man-pages-the-complete-guide-800ad93425fe
 
 
 
 
 
 

sshd troubleshooting

 OpenBSD sshd server

 systemctl status ssh

 

 

Systematic Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting SSH Issues: A Sysadmin‘s Survival Guide

check

hostname

Is host reachable on the network?

ping host

Look at the boot log

journalctl -k -b -1