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# Overview {#preface}
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Nixpkgs is a set of packages for the [Nix package manager](https://nixos.org/nix/), released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/COPYING).
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Further documentation:
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- [nix.dev](https://nix.dev/): Tutorials and guides for getting things done with Nix
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- [NixOS Search](https://search.nixos.org)
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- [Contributing](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md): to Nixpkgs
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Nix expressions describe how to build packages from source and are collected in
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the [nixpkgs repository](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs).
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Packages are distributed through [channels](#how-channels-work).
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