I’m setting up a new flake from scratch (really from the nix-Darwin simple flake), and I am trying to install the JetBrainsMono nerd font.
The NixOS wiki says that you can override the installs to specific fonts (my flake.nix uses this config for JetBrainsMono):
fonts.packages = with pkgs; [
(nerdfonts.override { fonts = [ "JetBrainsMono" ]; })
]
However, when I attempt to use this override the rebuild returns the following error:
error: nerdfonts has been separated into individual font packages under the namespace nerd-fonts
I tried searching around for the nerd-fonts namespace being mentioned, but I am a bit lost since I cannot find an updated wiki/doc for the new namespace changes. It looks like this change may have happened somewhat recently, if I can follow the source package docs properly(?).
Is there a new config/doc that explains how to install nerd fonts?
Amazing! I tried pretty much every combo but this one, apparently… looking through my git history it was:
nerd-fonts.JetBrainsMono
nerd-fonts.jetbrainsmono
nerd-fonts.jet-brains-mono
[...]
Thank you so much!
You don’t have to blindly try in the future, you can run nix repl -f '<nixpkgs>' and then explore attributes in nixpkgs or even use tab completion:
nix-repl> nerd-fonts.
nerd-fonts._0xproto nerd-fonts.code-new-roman nerd-fonts.fira-code nerd-fonts.inconsolata-go nerd-fonts.meslo-lg nerd-fonts.profont nerd-fonts.ubuntu
nerd-fonts._3270 nerd-fonts.comic-shanns-mono nerd-fonts.fira-mono nerd-fonts.inconsolata-lgc nerd-fonts.monaspace nerd-fonts.proggy-clean-tt nerd-fonts.ubuntu-mono
nerd-fonts.agave nerd-fonts.commit-mono nerd-fonts.geist-mono nerd-fonts.intone-mono nerd-fonts.monofur nerd-fonts.recurseForDerivations nerd-fonts.ubuntu-sans
nerd-fonts.anonymice nerd-fonts.cousine nerd-fonts.go-mono nerd-fonts.iosevka nerd-fonts.monoid nerd-fonts.recursive-mono nerd-fonts.victor-mono
nerd-fonts.arimo nerd-fonts.d2coding nerd-fonts.gohufont nerd-fonts.iosevka-term nerd-fonts.mononoki nerd-fonts.roboto-mono nerd-fonts.zed-mono
nerd-fonts.aurulent-sans-mono nerd-fonts.daddy-time-mono nerd-fonts.hack nerd-fonts.iosevka-term-slab nerd-fonts.mplus nerd-fonts.sauce-code-pro
nerd-fonts.bigblue-terminal nerd-fonts.dejavu-sans-mono nerd-fonts.hasklug nerd-fonts.jetbrains-mono nerd-fonts.noto nerd-fonts.shure-tech-mono
nerd-fonts.bitstream-vera-sans-mono nerd-fonts.departure-mono nerd-fonts.heavy-data nerd-fonts.lekton nerd-fonts.open-dyslexic nerd-fonts.space-mono
nerd-fonts.blex-mono nerd-fonts.droid-sans-mono nerd-fonts.hurmit nerd-fonts.liberation nerd-fonts.overpass nerd-fonts.symbols-only
nerd-fonts.caskaydia-cove nerd-fonts.envy-code-r nerd-fonts.im-writing nerd-fonts.lilex nerd-fonts.override nerd-fonts.terminess-ttf
nerd-fonts.caskaydia-mono nerd-fonts.fantasque-sans-mono nerd-fonts.inconsolata nerd-fonts.martian-mono nerd-fonts.overrideDerivation nerd-fonts.tinos
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TIL. I’ve been using https://search.nixos.org for everything. I’ll have to read up on how this differs, because I could not find anything in the package search for nerd-fonts, at least the way I was searching.
Because search.nixos.org is usually far behind, and in this case the change hasn’t even reached nixos-unstable yet.
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Thank you for posting this! This helped me port over a number of nerd fonts that were named differently. If anyone else is wondering how to get the REPL to use a specific version of Nixpkgs, you can run something like this after you’ve cloned down the NixOS/nixpkgs.git locally, you can just point the nix repl command to that directory like so.
nix repl -f "/path/to/local/nixpkgs"
This is the most helpful when want to check things that will need to be changed in your configuration if you’re stuck.