From 9da6afa7810e84fb52543e4d8001a359ae42d7de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: revol-xut <revol-xut@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:27:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] adding nixos as an installation option

---
 docs/installation.md | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/installation.md b/docs/installation.md
index 4ace33a34..75573a89a 100644
--- a/docs/installation.md
+++ b/docs/installation.md
@@ -133,6 +133,16 @@ or for the nightly pre-release:
 yay -S lf-cli-nightly-bin
 ```
 
+### Nixos
+
+LFC is packaged in [nixpkgs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/development/compilers/lingua-franca/default.nix#L28) and is available via the binary cache.
+
+Run
+```
+ nix shell nixpkgs#lingua-franca
+```
+to temporarily install lfc in your current shell environment.
+
 ### Manual Download
 
 Regular and nightly release builds of the command line tools can be downloaded from the [Lingua Franca release page](https://github.com/lf-lang/lingua-franca/releases). Download the archive that matches your OS and architecture, and extract the contents.