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astroid can be installed directly using the nix package manager:

$ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA astroid

Additionally, you will most likely want to install notmuch (the mail indexing backend for astroid), offlineimap (for receiving mail) and msmtp (for sending mail):

$ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA notmuch offlineimap msmtp

To learn more about these dependencies and how to get started, check out the tour.