Installing AMC with Nix¶

Nix is part of the Nix packages collection, in unstable for now (as of
2021-11-05) and will likely be part of the 21.11 release.

Installation on NixOS¶

To install, either add auto-multiple-choice to
environment.systemPackages in your configuration.nix. If you want
to use TeX to write your questionnaires, you also need to add the
package to your texlive installation, like this:

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
auto-multiple-choice
(texlive.combine {
  inherit (pkgs.texlive) scheme-full;
  xtra =
    {
      pkgs = [ auto-multiple-choice ];
    };
})
];

Installation with Nix on non-NixOS platforms¶

The usual methods should work. You can either get a shell with AMC
installed with nix-shell -p auto-multiple-choice, or install AMC in
the user environment with nix-env -i auto-multiple-choice.

In both these cases, though, the .sty file won't be available to
your TeXLive installation. If you wish to use it, you can pass LaTeX
an explicit TEXINPUTS, like this:

TEXINPUTS=:.:$(nix eval nixpkgs.auto-multiple-choice.outPath):$TEXINPUTS pdflatex questionnaire

Troubleshooting¶

AMC has been added very recently to Nixpkgs. If you encounter
errors, make sure you're on unstable or at least 21.11 (not yet
released at the time of this writing), and update your channels before
installing.