I’m struggling to install NixOS behind a proxy. I’ve tried several approaches, but I keep hitting a wall where the Nix package manager can’t reach the binary caches. My Setup: Connection: Phone connected via Ethernet running a local proxy server. Installer: NixOS Minimal Installer. Environment Var…

Since Nix allows non-root access to packages, it uses a daemon to do the most of the work. Therefore you may want to set the proxy on the systemd service instead. Use sudo systemctl edit --runtime nix-daemon.service and write something like this, setting the exact variables you want to set: [Servi…

NixOS installation failing behind proxy (nix-shell can't resolve hosts)

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waffle8946 May 8, 2026, 10:16am 4

Could be a fastly issue. Maybe you can try the TUNA mirror:

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