Apologies in advance for the noob question (I didn’t find any answers).
I just installed nix along in my Ubuntu box (multi-user mode, the packages I use require flake, so I’m using that by default).
Now I’m trying to install my 3rd package (I only installed lolcat
and nushell
so far), and I’m getting an error that I’m not parsing:
$ nix profile install nixpkgs#ghostty
error: An existing package already provides the following file:
/nix/store/7q8p6ix19ckhaqhnvi2ifxq0fvgz1dpz-ghostty-1.0.1-man/share/man/man5/ghostty.5.gz
This is the conflicting file from the new package:
/nix/store/7q8p6ix19ckhaqhnvi2ifxq0fvgz1dpz-ghostty-1.0.1-man/share/man/man5/ghostty.5.gz
...
But…:
- I don’t have
ghostty
installed. - The package that “already provides” is the same it is trying to install. What is the point here?
- Although the commands it suggests don’t make sense to me (remove something not installed, used a different priority, since there are no installed packages), I tried them, with no success
Any suggestions how to make it work ?
Or pointers of things I should understand ? – chances are I’m doing something dumb
cheers and thanks in advance for any help!