=== Walkthrough: Gnucap on Nix on Debian ===
(root)# apt install nix-bin
It may be required to set up nix manually.
(user)[~]$ mkdir -p .local/share/nix/root/nix
(root)# mount -o bind ~user/.local/share/nix/root/nix/ /nix
The package description is in a git repo hosted on github.
(TODO: find mirror.)
(user)$ cd /some/where
(user)$ git clone https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs
(user)$ cd nixpkgs
To build the packages (from master and/or for development purposes), do
(user)[nixpkgs]$ nix-build . -A gnucap-full
Alternatively, select the official unstable repo and use binary packages
(user)[nixpkgs]$ git switch nixpkgs-unstable
The packages are now available inside nix-shell.
(user)[nixpkgs]$ cd
[..]
(user)[~]$ nix-shell -p gnucap-full -I nixpkgs=/some/where/nixpkgs
[nix-shell:~]$ gnucap
[..]
gnucap> _