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daanturo

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Registered: 2022-07-28

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Binaries installed by Nix package manager aren't available

I installed nix from Arch's pacman.  Today "/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin" suddenly isn't in the $PATH anymore.  If I recall correctly previously it was added by "/etc/profile.d/nix.sh" (but I'm not sure if the file ever existed).  Now "/usr/etc/profile.d/nix.sh" exists, but apparently it's not sourced.

Should I just symlink "/etc/profile.d/nix.sh" -> "/usr/etc/profile.d/nix.sh"?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Binaries installed by Nix package manager aren't available

I've never used Nix but a quick check of the wiki shows:

Note: If you installed Nix from the official repositories, you must add the ~/.nix-profile/bin directory to your PATH manually.

Did you do that?

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daanturo

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Registered: 2022-07-28

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Re: Binaries installed by Nix package manager aren't available

I've never used Nix but a quick check of the wiki shows:

Note: If you installed Nix from the official repositories, you must add the ~/.nix-profile/bin directory to your PATH manually.

Did you do that?

I did that, but it doesn't make binaries installed by root/nix (/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin) available as before.

jennydaman

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Registered: 2017-04-04

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Re: Binaries installed by Nix package manager aren't available

Same issue,

sudo ln -sv /usr/etc/profile.d/nix.sh /etc/profile.d

fixed it.

The Wiki's was last modified on 2024-08-18 however this behavior changed around 2025-02-20, so I would suspect it's a bug in packaging. For me, the only files under /usr/etc are the profile.d files installed by the nix package leading me to believe /usr/etc/profile.d is misplaced.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Binaries installed by Nix package manager aren't available

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/9