[Nix-dev] Re: Nix-channel does not work for me

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Wed Nov 25 13:41:26 CET 2009


Hi,

Pjotr Prins wrote:

> however
> 
>   nix-env -b -v -i vim
> 
> just renders some files it parses, but nothing happens.

Check whether the directory /nix/var/nix/manifests exists.  This directory was
not created automatically in Nix 0.13 and is not included in the Debian
packages.  This was fixed in r18336.  After creating it, you should re-run
nix-channel --update.

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