Very easy. git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git cd nixpkgs nix-build -A packagename Building the dependencies is completely automated. For

Very easy. git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git cd nixpkgs nix-build -A packagename Building the dependencies is completely automated. For more information, see the nixpkgs contributor's guide: http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/ http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/ Note that the above command will simply download cached binaries where they are available, but if you make any changes to the build scripts nix will notice rebuild locally instead. This gives you the benefits of both source based and binary based package managers.