First of all, I’m completely new to Nix and I have no idea what I’m doing. I would like to use it initially as a more general purpose replacement of conda environments for my AI-development workflow. To begin with, I’d like to install nix package manager at my work server where I don’t have root access. I tried
sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon
however it tries to create /nix which I cannot do without sudo. I searched everywhere, but I don’t seem to find a way to circumvent this.
Thanks!
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Above command will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that
/nixis owned by the invoking user. You should run this under your usual user account, not asroot. The script will invokesudoto create/nixif it doesn’t already exist.