During a recent endeavor I needed T383838nix-bin on Debian. After an install I had to manually add my user to the group (T383838vigr and T383838vigr -s to put my user in T383838nix-users) and then the NIX_PATH still wasn't set. So I set up the following variable:

export NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/refs/tags/24.05.zip

I'm not sure if I ever had to do that on Ubuntu, but maybe I just forgot?

Tags: nix

created: 2025-02-15

(re)generated: 2026-07-17