Add note about xz requirement for tarball in install-nix.md #1119
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Since we're providing for download
.tar.xz
binary tarballs, we assume that systems have xz-utils or similar for handling that compression format. We should make a note of this small requirement at the beginning of the Install Nix page.Ref for WSL :
Fixed after running
sudo apt install xz-utils
for my Debian distribution with WSL