Package: nix-bin
Version: 2.8.0-1.1+b1
Severity: important
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This is my first time trying out nix, however I could not get it to
work.
~$ sudo nix-shell -p cowsay
[sudo] password for farhad:
error: file 'nixpkgs' was not found in the Nix search path (add it using
$NIX_PATH or -I)
at «string»:1:25:
1| {...}@args: with import <nixpkgs> args; (pkgs.runCommandCC or
pkgs.runCommand) "shell" { buildInputs = [ (cowsay) ]; } ""
| ^
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
whenever I try nix-shel or nix-env to use a package it seems to not be
able to find nixpkgs and fails to proceed anyh further.
I tried to manually upgrade nix from this link:
https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/upgrading
however nothing changed
I also tried to use Arch Wiki's guide:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Nix&oldid=684715
but adding a channel did not seem to resolve the issue either.
Needless to say i performed a full reboot after each action and nothing
seemed to be affected.
I could poke around further but lack of documentation for this package
and my lack of knowledge about nix is holding me back. I do not want to
use packages outside of debian 12 stable, or run random shell scripts on
my machine.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages nix-bin depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.8-5+b1
ii curl 7.88.1-10+deb12u5
ii libarchive13 3.6.2-1
ii libboost-context1.74.0 1.74.0+ds1-21
ii libbrotli1 1.0.9-2+b6
ii libbsd0 0.11.7-2
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u4
ii libcpuid16 0.6.2+repack1-1
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.88.1-10+deb12u5
ii libdbd-sqlite3-perl 1.72-1
ii libgc1 1:8.2.2-3
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14
ii libreadline8 8.2-1.3
ii libseccomp2 2.5.4-1+b3
ii libsodium23 1.0.18-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.40.1-2
ii libssl3 3.0.11-1~deb12u2
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14
ii libwww-curl-perl 4.17-10
ii perl 5.36.0-7+deb12u1
ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.06-4
ii xz-utils 5.4.1-0.2
Versions of packages nix-bin recommends:
ii nix-setup-systemd 2.8.0-1.1
nix-bin suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
