nix3-profile-add(1)

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🎀 nix3-profile-add(1) 🎀

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⚠️ Warning: This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change. fr fr, they will switch it up on you, don't get too attached to the exact flags 💀

✨ Name ✨

nix profile add — add a package to a profile 🫶

✨ Synopsis ✨

nix profile add [option…] installables…

✨ Examples ✨

  • Add a package from Nixpkgs:
# nix profile add nixpkgs#hello
  • Add a package from a specific branch of Nixpkgs:
# nix profile add nixpkgs/release-20.09#hello
  • Add a package from a specific revision of Nixpkgs:
# nix profile add nixpkgs/d73407e8e6002646acfdef0e39ace088bacc83da#hello
  • Add a specific output of a package:
# nix profile add nixpkgs#bash^man

✨ Description ✨

This command adds installables to a Nix profile. slay 💅

📝 Note: nix profile install is an alias for nix profile add. two names, one icon 💖

✨ Options ✨

  • --priority priority — The priority of the package to add.
  • --profile path — The profile to operate on.
  • --stdin — Read installables from the standard input. No default installable applied.

🌸 Common evaluation options 🌸

  • --arg name expr — Pass the value expr as the argument name to Nix functions.
  • --arg-from-file name path — Pass the contents of file path as the argument name to Nix functions.
  • --arg-from-stdin name — Pass the contents of stdin as the argument name to Nix functions.
  • --argstr name string — Pass the string string as the argument name to Nix functions.
  • --debugger — Start an interactive environment if evaluation fails.
  • --eval-store store-url — The URL of the Nix store to use for evaluation, i.e. to store derivations (.drv files) and inputs referenced by them.
  • --impure — Allow access to mutable paths and repositories.
  • --include, -I path — Add path to search path entries used to resolve lookup paths.

This option may be given multiple times.

Paths added through -I take precedence over the nix-path configuration setting and the NIX_PATH environment variable.

  • --override-flake original-ref resolved-ref — Override the flake registries, redirecting original-ref to resolved-ref.
  • --commit-lock-file — Commit changes to the flake’s lock file.
  • --inputs-from flake-url — Use the inputs of the specified flake as registry entries.
  • --no-registries — Don’t allow lookups in the flake registries.
💀 DEPRECATED — Use --no-use-registries instead.
  • --no-update-lock-file — Do not allow any updates to the flake’s lock file.
  • --no-write-lock-file — Do not write the flake’s newly generated lock file.
  • --output-lock-file flake-lock-path — Write the given lock file instead of flake.lock within the top-level flake.
  • --override-input input-path flake-url — Override a specific flake input (e.g. dwarffs/nixpkgs). The input path must not be empty. This implies --no-write-lock-file.
  • --recreate-lock-file — Recreate the flake’s lock file from scratch.
💀 DEPRECATED — Use nix flake update instead.
  • --reference-lock-file flake-lock-path — Read the given lock file instead of flake.lock within the top-level flake.
  • --update-input input-path — Update a specific flake input (ignoring its previous entry in the lock file).
💀 DEPRECATED — Use nix flake update instead.
  • --debug — Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.
  • --log-format format — Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.
  • --print-build-logs, -L — Print full build logs on standard error.
  • --quiet — Decrease the logging verbosity level.
  • --verbose, -v — Increase the logging verbosity level.

⭐ Miscellaneous global options ⭐

  • --help — Show usage information.
  • --offline — Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.
  • --option name value — Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).
  • --refresh — Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.
  • --repair — During evaluation, rewrite missing or corrupted files in the Nix store. During building, rebuild missing or corrupted store paths.
  • --version — Show version information.

🧚 Options that change the interpretation of installables 🧚

  • --expr expr — Interpret installables as attribute paths relative to the Nix expression expr.
  • --file, -f file — Interpret installables as attribute paths relative to the Nix expression stored in file. If file is the character -, then a Nix expression is read from standard input. Implies --impure.
📝 Note: See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.

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