[Nix-dev] Unfree packages in Nixpkgs

Ricardo M. Correia rcorreia at wizy.org
Sun Apr 13 17:22:26 CEST 2014


That works, thanks!


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you put it in your ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix instead, it should be
> picked up by nix-repl.
>
> 2014-04-13 16:58 GMT+02:00 Ricardo M. Correia <rcorreia at wizy.org>:
> > Hi Marc,
> >
> > I've added it to my configuration.nix but it doesn't seem to work:
> >
> > # nix-repl '<nixpkgs>'
> > Welcome to Nix version 1.6.1. Type :? for help.
> >
> > Loading '<nixpkgs>'...
> > Added 3740 variables.
> >
> > nix-repl> pkgs.flashplayer.name
> > error: user-thrown exception: package 'flashplayer-11.2.202.350' in
> > <<unknown-file>> has an unfree license, refusing to evaluate
> >
> >
> > I would guess that would be because nix-repl doesn't even parse
> > configuration.nix?
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> > How do I pass "allowUnfree = true" to nix-repl, so that it lets me
> >> > evaluate
> >> > unfree expressions?
> >> system:
> >>
> >>   configuration.nix:
> >>   nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
> >>
> >> user:
> >>
> >>   ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix:
> >>   { pkgs, ... } : {
> >>     allowUnfree = true;
> >>   }
> >>
> >> Marc Weber
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