Missing manpage for nix-env and others

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Hi,

I don’t see to have a manpage for nix-env, and other nix commands, such as nix-store and nix-shell:

❯ nix-env --help
No manual entry for nix-env

However, I do have manpages for “nix3” commands:

❯ man -w nix3-repl
/nix/store/iwgkck1d64s5f26ngln540hpf06g28py-nix-2.20.1/share/man/man1/nix3-repl.1.gz

I installed the man-pages and man-db packages, but it doesn’t help.

I’m using Nix as a package manager, with nixpkgs-unstable.

Am I missing some package? If so, which one?

Thanks!

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Thanks!

My conclusion: if you want to learn Nix, use the latest nixos channel, and not nixpkgs-unstable, which is really unstable. For other newbies, those are the commands that helped me:

nix-channel --remove nixpkgs
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-23.11 nixos
nix-channel --update
nix-env -iA nixos.nix
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Thanks, that helped.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find a way to add latest stable release, without setting the version numbers literally: