Thank you Vladimir! I saw someone using that command and I inferred that
one specifies the location of the nixpkgs root with -f, which after a brief
consultation with the manpages I realize is incorrect. Everything is
working now. For reference, I'm now executing

$ nix-shell "/path/to/nixpkgs" -A packageSet.packageToInstall

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:27 PM Vladimír Čunát <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/29/2015 03:44 AM, Rahul Muttineni wrote:
> > $ nix-shell -f /path/to/nixpkgs
>
> Are you sure that is the command you want? AFAIK people almost always
> specify some relatively small things by -A or -p or a path to a custom
> nix expression.
>
> Vladimir
>
>
>
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