Installer woes

[kevin-ledezma]

Platform

• Linux:
• [ X] macOS
• WSL

Additional information

I am trying to reinstall Nix but I am having a lot of issues. I raised an issue last week but was pointed to another comment as mine was duplicative but now am getting this error when I try to curl.

Output

Output

sudo cp /etc/bashrc /etc/bashrc.bak
sudo cp /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix.bak

sudo cp /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix.bak

cp: /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix: No such file or directory
sudo vim /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix

sudo mv /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix /etc/bashrc

I back up shell profile/rc scripts before I add Nix to them.
I need to back up /etc/zshrc to /etc/zshrc.backup-before-nix,
but the latter already exists.

Here's how to clean up the old backup file:

1. Back up (copy) /etc/zshrc and /etc/zshrc.backup-before-nix
   to another location, just in case.

2. Ensure /etc/zshrc.backup-before-nix does not have anything
   Nix-related in it. If it does, something is probably quite
   wrong. Please open an issue or get in touch immediately.

System-wide profile for interactive zsh(1) shells.

Setup user specific overrides for this in ~/.zshrc. See zshbuiltins(1)

and zshoptions(1) for more details.

Correctly display UTF-8 with combining characters.

if [[ "$(locale LC_CTYPE)" == "UTF-8" ]]; then
setopt COMBINING_CHARS
fi

Disable the log builtin, so we don't conflict with /usr/bin/log

disable log

Save command history

HISTFILE=${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_history
HISTSIZE=2000
SAVEHIST=1000

Beep on error

setopt BEEP

Use keycodes (generated via zkbd) if present, otherwise fallback on

values from terminfo

if [[ -r ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zkbd/${TERM}-${VENDOR} ]] ; then
"/etc/zshrc.backup-before-nix" [readonly] 73L, 3094B

Checklist

• checked latest Nix manual (source)
• checked open installer issues and pull requests for possible duplicates

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[kevin-ledezma]

mv /etc/zshrc.backup-before-nix /etc/zshrc
override r--r--r-- root/wheel for /etc/zshrc? (y/n [n]) y
mv: rename /etc/zshrc.backup-before-nix to /etc/zshrc: Permission denied

[abathur]

I'd try to follow the uninstall instructions before reinstalling it: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/uninstall.html#macos