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Expand Up @@ -6,14 +6,23 @@ It is broken up into multiple Meson packages, which are optionally combined in a
There are no mandatory extra steps to the building process:
generic Meson installation instructions like [this](https://mesonbuild.com/Quick-guide.html#using-meson-as-a-distro-packager) should work.

The installation path can be specified by passing the `-Dprefix=prefix`
to `configure`. The default installation directory is `/usr/local`. You
```bash
git clone https://github.com/NixOS/nix.git
cd nix
meson setup build
cd build
ninja
(sudo) ninja install
```

The installation path can be specified by passing `-Dprefix=prefix`
to `meson setup build`. The default installation directory is `/usr/local`. You
can change this to any location you like. You must have write permission
to the *prefix* path.

Nix keeps its *store* (the place where packages are stored) in
`/nix/store` by default. This can be changed using
`-Dstore-dir=path`.
`-Dlibstore:store-dir=path`.

> **Warning**
>
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