Nix and Nixpkgs

Nix is a purely functional package manager and Nixpkgs is a package collection containing more than 6,000 packages. Nix provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks of packages, which makes package management reliable and reproducible. It also provides a good development environment for Haskell, Python, and C/C++.

Nix is installed in the PTC cluster but needs more tests. Interested users can contact the system administrator to set it up in their environment.

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