bhougland18
I am trying to install Livebook on Nixos using the escript method, and am getting the following error:
❯ livebook server
/usr/bin/env: ‘escript’: No such file or directory. I apologize in advance, I am a new Elixir user
I followed the instructions an added the escripts directory to my path in Fish shell, but it is still unable to find the path. I have a feeling it is due to my development shell Devenv (www.devenv.sh). However, before I go down that rabbit hole I wanted to check here first and see if this might not be an easy fix.
Thank you!
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chinponya
Escript binary is a part of the erlang package. It should be enough to just add erlang to your devenv, alongside elixir.
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hauleth
I have created Nix Flake for Livebook if you are interested. This Flake takes care of all dependencies that you would need
https://github.com/hauleth/nix-elixir
I plan on expanding it with more OTP-related projects to be more like Fenix but for OTP related stuff.
bhougland18
Starred this repository. It is my goal to move my NixOS config to a flake very soon based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJbQ--iBc1U
Thanks for the info!
samrose
This one works thanks @hauleth I used your work as the basis for a flox version too https://github.com/flox-examples/livebook
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samrose
I posted the wrong link earlier, this is where we had used your example to create a “flox” based example. thanks again for these clues https://github.com/flox-examples/flox-livebook