Hi,
Summary:
Expected outcome:
Install discord 0.0.22 (current available version) in user env (nix env…) from unstable channel (system-wide channel is stable)
What output did you get:
‘nix-env -qaP discord’ results in ‘nixos.discord discord-0.0.21’
Long version:
I’m trying to install discord. Version 0.0.21 is out of date and so I cannot use it. A search reveals version 0.0.22 is in the unstable channel. I waited a few days to see if the stable branch got updated, but it didn’t.
So I intend to temporarily use the unstable version at a user level and update the system later when stable catches up.
(nixpkgs2111 here is for some older channel I have a nix path entry for, for reasons I long have forgotten, but it serves the purpose of an example well)
Installing then should work similarily using nix-env -f '<nixpkgs2111> -iA discord.
Though be aware that using nix-env this way is usually a bad idea, instead you probably want to use your systems configuration or home-manager for installing discord in a newer version.
PS: a backport has been created, and if it builds on my machine, I will merge quickly. You can follow its progress through the backporting on the PR tracker
@NobbZ Thanks for the post - and I now have the updated version.
I’ll look into home-manager (I use nix-env as a longer term nix-shell, and do not do this for anything I want to keep (app or config) or version control). I continue to learn
