[Nix-dev] Installation on opensuse

[Matt Paine]

Hi Guys.

I have installed the RPM (actually built for fedora 19) on my newly
installed opensuse machine, and was hoping to get some help finalising the
installation.

I want to understand as much of the nix system as possible. But thought I
would do the RPM installation to start with, and move to a manual
installation from source down the track.

The error I am getting is this....

matt at linux-5ggd:~> nix-channel --update
downloading Nix expressions from `
http://releases.nixos.org/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-14.02pre37547.75f97f5/nixexprs.tar.xz'.
..
Perl API version v5.16.0 of Nix::Store does not match v5.18.0 at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.18.1/XSLoader.pm line 92.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/nix-prefetch-url line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/nix-prefetch-url line 7.
cannot fetch `
http://releases.nixos.org/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-14.02pre37547.75f97f5/nixexprs.tar.xz
'


I read in a post that I should install the nix binary store, as that
contains the version of perl required (
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/1121) which I have done, but the
next issue is that the default profile does not seem to exist...

matt at linux-5ggd:~> ls -lah
total 144K
drwxr-xr-x 24 matt users 4.0K Jan  5 18:51 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root   root  4.0K Jan  4 21:37 ..
...
lrwxrwxrwx  1 matt users   29 Jan  5 18:49 .nix-profile ->
/nix/var/nix/profiles/default
...

matt at linux-5ggd:~> ls -lah /nix/var/nix/profiles/
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Jan  5 17:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Jan  5 12:11 ..
drwxrwxrwt  4 root root 4.0K Jan  5 16:30 per-user


So my question is... is there an easy way to create a base
/nix/var/nix/profiles/default to get me started?

Feel free to put me on the right path if this isn't the correct question to
be asking :)

Thank you.
Matt.
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