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 # nixos-db-main
 Nixos Derivation for DB-Main (https://www.db-main.eu/).
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+This needs the DB-Main files separately. The files are expected to be in a db-main directory, so that the db_main binary in in ./db-main/bin/db_main. This has been tested for version 11.0.2 .