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Expand Up @@ -34,6 +34,31 @@ to your system `configuration.nix` file, which will introduce a new
NixOS option called `home-manager.users` whose type is an attribute set
that maps user names to Home Manager configurations.

Alternatively, home-manager installation can be done declaratively through configuration.nix using the following syntax:
```nix
{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:

let
home-manager = builtins.fetchTarball https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-24.11.tar.gz;
in
{
imports =
[
(import "${home-manager}/nixos")
];

users.users.eve.isNormalUser = true;
home-manager.users.eve = { pkgs, ... }: {
home.packages = [ pkgs.atool pkgs.httpie ];
programs.bash.enable = true;

# The state version is required and should stay at the version you
# originally installed.
home.stateVersion = "24.11";
};
}
```

For example, a NixOS configuration may include the lines

``` nix
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -123,3 +148,4 @@ you create. This contains the system's NixOS configuration.

Once installed you can see [Using Home Manager](#ch-usage) for a more detailed
description of Home Manager and how to use it.

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