Keepass package won't go away?

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Hi there! I’ve been using the ‘keepass’ package for quite some time. I defined this package in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix So recently I decided I’d try the ‘keepassxc’ package, so I replaced ‘keepass’ with ‘keepassxc’. It installed the KeePassXC package (works great btw) and I was happy. However, the ‘keepass’ package was not removed. It is still installed. I tried removing ‘keepassxc’ from /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and it was removed correctly, but ‘keepass’ is still there.

I’ve been executing ‘nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade’ each time I update the configuration. I’ve tried running ‘nix-collect-garbage’, and I’ve never used ‘nix-env -iA’, but I ran ‘nix-env e keepass’ just in case, but no luck. It just doesn’t want to leave! Any idea why this might be happening?

Thanks!

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When you type which keepass, what do you get?

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Oh right sorry! Whoops, I forgot to add that part. It seems odd to me as well:

So for my regular user, which keepass returns /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin/keepass. That /bin directory there only contains keepass and .keepass-wrapped.

The keepass file contains:

#! /nix/store/65l6hr8snf4v823f974k97jc65i7bhvf-bash-4.4-p12/bin/bash -e export LD_LIBRARY_PATH='/nix/store/n56mn6x861f8571ky3hwm57z14d3z65q-gtk+-2.24.31/lib'${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+':'}$LD_LIBRARY_PATH exec -a "$0" "/nix/store/q00jnnqr47aaq5wib8yw9sw7vkkwycr2-keepass-2.37/bin/.keepass-wrapped" "${extraFlagsArray[@]}" "$@"

and the .keepass-wrapped file contains:

#! /nix/store/65l6hr8snf4v823f974k97jc65i7bhvf-bash-4.4-p12/bin/bash -e exec "/nix/store/cq6n625n6xsm3rvz0lnx4vdafwbj8cws-mono-4.0.4.1/bin/mono" "/nix/store/q00jnnqr47aaq5wib8yw9sw7vkkwycr2-keepass-2.37/lib/dotnet/keepass/KeePass.exe" "${extraFlagsArray[@]}" "$@"

That’s for my normal user. For root, which keepass gives me: /root/.nix-profile/bin/keepass. And it’s the same situation there. Only keepass and .keepass-wrapped are in that bin directory.

Is it safe to just delete that /bin/ directory if nothing else is there?

The default/ and .nix-profile/ directories both contain bin/ as well as lib/ share/, and manifest.nix

Thanks so much for your help!

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You installed keepass into your root user’s profile.

sudo nix-env -e keepass

Note that by default the root user’s profile is also made available to all users. This way a multi-user install can install stuff globally with sudo.

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That was it! Thank you so much! And thank you for the clarification, it makes a lot of sense now. :slight_smile: