On Mon, Apr 27, 2015, at 03:56 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the badly worded subject line. > > NixOS newbie here. Playing with NixOS on a VirtualBox installation and > really really liking it so far. > > I am using nix-shell and the quick start example in the manual (step #6 > listed here: <https://nixos.org/nix/manual/>) does not seem to work for > me: > > [ram@nixos:~] nix-shell -p hello > these paths will be fetched (0.04 MiB ... > > *** Downloading .... > > [ram@nixos:~]$ hello > The program `hello' is currently not installed ... > ... > [ram@nixos:~]$ exit > > [ram@nixos:~]$ > > Note that the prompt string didn't change when we entered the nix-shell. > > If I do: > > [ram@nixos:~]$ nix-shell -p hello --pure > > [nix-shell:~]$ hello > Hello, world! > > [nix-shell:~]$ > > I wonder why without "--pure" it didn't get into the shell. Would > appreciate any help.
The nix-env version is: [ram@nixos:~]$ nix-env --version nix-env (Nix) 1.9pre4088_1711679 -- Ramakrishnan "Err and err and err again, but less and less and less" ⟶ Piet Hein _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
