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> Warning
> This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.

# Name

`nix derivation add` - Add a store derivation

# Synopsis

`nix derivation add` [option...]

Note: this command's interface is based heavily around installables, which you may want to read about first (`nix --help`).

# Description

This command reads from standard input a JSON representation of a store derivation to which an installable evaluates.

Store derivations are used internally by Nix. They are store paths with extension `.drv` that represent the build-time dependency graph to which a Nix expression evaluates.

The JSON format is documented under the `derivation show` command.

# Options

- `--dry-run` Show what this command would do without doing it.

Logging-related options:

- `--debug` Set the logging verbosity level to 'debug'.

- `--print-build-logs` / `-L` Print full build logs on standard error.

- `--quiet` Decrease the logging verbosity level.

- `--verbose` / `-v` Increase the logging verbosity level.

Miscellaneous global options:

- `--help` Show usage information.

- `--offline` Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.

- `--option` name value Set the Lix configuration setting name to value (overriding `nix.conf`).

- `--refresh` Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

- `--version` Show version information.

> Note

> See `man nix.conf` for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.