[Nix-dev] Re: linux-headers-2.6.28.5 required but not found

[Eric Bouwers]

Hoi all,

> > Could it be that you’re using an old Nix, which isn’t able to cope with
> > the newer channel format?  What does “nix-env –version” report?

nix-env --version reported version 0.12.

> So Eric, I think you need to pull the svn for nixpkgs, then update
> just nix. Then it could work.

After updating nix to version 0.13 it worked like a charm. Unfortunately, I
could not update nix through nix, so I had to fall back to installing from
source. This might be worth a note on the release page of nix.

Thanks for the quick response!

Cheers,
Eric