On 2024-02-27 04:20:02, Walter Bleach wrote: > > 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 > $NIX_PATH or -I)
Do you want to run this as root (sudo)? If you add your user to the
nix-users group, I think you should be able to run `nix-shell -p
cowsay` as your user without sudo. (Assuming you also added a channel
like mention in the nix-channel man page.)
Oh, I also manually added this in ~/.bashrc:
if [ -e "$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels" ]; then
export NIX_PATH="$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels${NIX_PATH:+:$NIX_PATH}"
fi
This seems like something we might want to consider handling in the
nix debian packaging by updating /etc/profile.d. (Or, at least mention
in /usr/share/doc/nix-bin/README.Debian.)
-Jordan
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