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 Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package
 manager.
 
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 [NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) linux distribution source code is located inside `nixos/` folder.
 
 * [NixOS installation instructions](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#ch-installation)