How to reinstall Home Manager?

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Hello! I wanted to switch to “standalone” option of home-manager from “nixos module”, so I deleted some lines from my configuration.nix and accidentally ran nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install with sudo. Therefore my home.nix is located in my root directory now instead user. Could you please tell me how I can remove it to reinstall without sudo?

Thanks in advance!

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Just run the command as your user.

Still you probably should uninstall as root, though uninstallastion is undocumented.

For your usecase it should be enough to sudo nix-env -e home-manager-path to make sure that all the programs that are installed by HM already get removed from roots packages.

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