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Problems with downloading and installing Nix on ubuntu

I’ve installed ubuntu and now I’d like to install NIX in order to later install ARTIQ enviroment. However once I’m following steps from manual https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-binary
I’m having problem with installing the NIX.

When I’m using following command:

sudo curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

The response is following:

 % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100  4052  100  4052    0     0  20375      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 20375
downloading Nix 2.18.1 binary tarball for x86_64-linux from 'https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.18.1/nix-2.18.1-x86_64-linux.tar.xz' to '/tmp/nix-binary-tarball-unpack.dm63s9mZs1'...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0Warning: Failed to open the file 
Warning: /tmp/nix-binary-tarball-unpack.dm63s9mZs1/nix-2.18.1-x86_64-linux.tar.
Warning: xz: No such file or directory
  0 20.6M    0 16375    0     0   143k      0  0:02:26 --:--:--  0:02:26  142k
curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination
sh: failed to download 'https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.18.1/nix-2.18.1-x86_64-linux.tar.xz'

So, clearly, there is a problem with downloading the file(archive).
I’ve downloaded this archive and unpacked it manually. However I have no udea how sould i proceed next. What next should I try to do in order to install NIX? enter image description here

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    OK, I've managed to install nix just by manually downloading and unpacking the archive. Then in the terminal i went into tat unpacked archive and just run the command; ./install In the attached image there is a screenshot of a terminal enter image description here


  2. 0

    It looks like you don’t have xz installed. Try running this:

    sudo apt install xz-utils
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