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Hey guys, I'm pretty new to Nix and NixOS and one of the reasons I installed it is because I know there's some way to install the KDE 6 Beta before the official stable release. I wanted to use the kde2nix overlay, but appearantely KDE 6 has been merged into the official nixpkgs repository. How do I switch from Plasma 5 to 6? I'm already on the unstable channel if that matters.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

İt is not merged yet. There is a pr but it isnt merged currently. You can use kde2nix in the meanwhile

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But kde2nix is archived on GitHub? And it doesn't have any instructions in the README, it just says "Merging into Nixpkgs: NixOS/nixpkgs#286522". How do I actually use it, what do I have to put in my configuration.nix file?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thanks, I'll try asking in their Matrix channel

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not even out yet... Also don't dare to be faster than arch with this stuff.... :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It was literally merged into nixpkgs