Warning
This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.

Name

nix upgrade-nix - upgrade Nix to the stable version declared in Nixpkgs

Synopsis

nix upgrade-nix [option...]

Examples

  • Upgrade Nix to the stable version declared in Nixpkgs:

    # nix upgrade-nix

  • Upgrade Nix in a specific profile:

    # nix upgrade-nix --profile ~alice/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile

Description

This command upgrades Nix to the stable version declared in Nixpkgs. This stable version is defined in nix-fallback-paths.nix and updated manually. It may not always be the latest tagged release.

By default, it locates the directory containing the nix binary in the $PATH environment variable. If that directory is a Nix profile, it will upgrade the nix package in that profile to the latest stable binary release.

You cannot use this command to upgrade Nix in the system profile of a NixOS system (that is, if nix is found in /run/current-system).

Options

  • --dry-run

    Show what this command would do without doing it.

  • --nix-store-paths-url url

    The URL of the file that contains the store paths of the latest Nix release.

  • --profile / -p profile-dir

    The path to the Nix profile to upgrade.

  • --debug

    Set the logging verbosity level to 'debug'.

  • --log-format format

    Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.

  • --print-build-logs / -L

    Print full build logs on standard error.

  • --quiet

    Decrease the logging verbosity level.

  • --verbose / -v

    Increase the logging verbosity level.

Miscellaneous global options

  • --help

    Show usage information.

  • --offline

    Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.

  • --option name value

    Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).

  • --refresh

    Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

  • --version

    Show version information.

Note

See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.