Can't rebuild system after deleting a package from the store

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All right, so I backed up the profiles with cp -r -d /nix/var/nix/profiles . and then removed all the broken symlinks:

for f in $(find /nix/var/nix/profiles/); do if [ ! -e "$f" ]; then sudo rm $f; fi; done

Rebuilding the system now works.

So reading up on profiles, here’s what I think happened.

The store did not break, but I had lots of generations that broke because I forcefully removed a package that they still referenced.

Thanks for the help all! Really appreciate the quick responses :slight_smile:

edit: for the .desktop entry not showing up in Gnome, I think it’s due to a change in the package so not Nix-related.