https://sgvd.ai/tags/nix/ Recent content in Nix on SGVD.ai Hugo en Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sgvd.ai/post/2026-03-25-ros2-with-nix/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sgvd.ai/post/2026-03-25-ros2-with-nix/ <p>Recently I started getting into the world of <a href="https://nixos.org/explore/">Nix</a>. First, to manage my user environment using <a href="https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager">Home Manager</a>, and now to manage my ROS 2 development environment. <em>On any Linux distribution</em>.</p> <h2 id="tldr">TL;DR</h2> <p>Want to have a full ROS 2 development environment, completely from scratch <em>on any Linux distribution</em>? Just run these two commands:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-shell" data-lang="shell"><span class="line"><span class="cl">sh &lt;<span class="o">(</span>curl --proto <span class="s1">&#39;=https&#39;</span> --tlsv1.2 -L https://nixos.org/nix/install<span class="o">)</span> --daemon </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">nix develop <span class="s1">&#39;github:lopsided98/nix-ros-overlay/master#example-ros2-desktop-jazzy&#39;</span> </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Boom, you&rsquo;re in a ROS 2 Jazzy development shell, where you can just immediately run something like:</p>