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 # Nix Pills
 
+This is a ported version of the Nix Pills, a series of blog posts written by Luca Bruno (aka Lethalman) and originally published in 2014 and 2015. It provides a tutorial introduction into the Nix package manager and Nixpkgs package collection, in the form of short chapters called 'pills'.
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+Since the Nix Pills are considered a classic introduction to Nix, an effort to port them to the current format was led by Graham Christensen (aka grahamc) and other contributors in 2017.
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+For an up-to-date version, please visit https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/. An EPUB version is also available.
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+If you encounter problems, please report them on the nixos/nix-pills issue tracker.
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 Available online as a [multi-page HTML](https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/) or an [e-book in EPUB format](https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/nix-pills.epub).
 
 You can also build them locally: