aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/quick-start.xml7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/quick-start.xml b/doc/manual/quick-start.xml
index 606a93ad5..55f88fe40 100644
--- a/doc/manual/quick-start.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/quick-start.xml
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ to the following chapters.</para>
<listitem><para>Download a source tarball or RPM or Debian/Ubuntu
package from <link xlink:href='http://nixos.org/'/>. Build source
distributions using the regular sequence:
-
+
<screen>
$ tar xvfj nix-<replaceable>version</replaceable>.tar.bz2
+$ cd nix-<replaceable>version</replaceable>
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install <lineannotation>(as root)</lineannotation></screen>
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ libxslt-1.1.0
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Install some packages from the channel:
-
+
<screen>
$ nix-env -i hello firefox <replaceable>...</replaceable> </screen>
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ $ firefox
<lineannotation>(read Slashdot or something)</lineannotation></screen>
</para></listitem>
-
+
<listitem><para>Uninstall a package:
<screen>