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# Installing Home Manager {#ch-installation}
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Home Manager can be used in three primary ways:
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1. Using the standalone `home-manager` tool. For platforms other than
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NixOS and Darwin, this is the only available choice. It is also
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recommended for people on NixOS or Darwin that want to manage their
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home directory independently of the system as a whole. See
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[Standalone installation](#sec-install-standalone) for instructions
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on how to perform this installation.
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2. As a module within a NixOS system configuration. This allows the
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user profiles to be built together with the system when running
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`nixos-rebuild`. See [NixOS module](#sec-install-nixos-module) for a
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description of this setup.
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3. As a module within a
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[nix-darwin](https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/) system
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configuration. This allows the user profiles to be built together
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with the system when running `darwin-rebuild`. See [nix-darwin
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module](#sec-install-nix-darwin-module) for a description of this
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setup.
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:::{.note}
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In this chapter we describe how to install Home Manager in the standard
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way using channels. If you prefer to use [Nix
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Flakes](https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Flakes) then please see the instructions
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in [nix flakes](#ch-nix-flakes).
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:::
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```{=include=} sections
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installation/standalone.md
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installation/nixos.md
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installation/nix-darwin.md
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```
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