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| author | Jeremy Shaw <jeremy@n-heptane.com> | 2015-12-06 11:00:03 -0600 |
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| committer | Jeremy Shaw <jeremy@n-heptane.com> | 2015-12-06 11:00:03 -0600 |
| commit | 3afa16e16f32bc3f98a34beeb1437c926a7045fe (patch) | |
| tree | 12f3d02a663055a4618ee75cf54aee8998153cb3 | |
| parent | d1e3bf01bce7d8502610532077f6f55c3df4de2c (diff) | |
Clarify installation error message that is shown when /nix/store exists but is not writable by the user
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh index 3efe7b384..c3da59980 100644 --- a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh +++ b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if ! [ -e $dest ]; then fi if ! [ -w $dest ]; then - echo "$0: directory $dest exists, but is not writable by you; please run ‘chown -R $USER $dest’ as root" >&2 + echo "$0: directory $dest exists, but is not writable by you. This could indicate that another user has already performed a single-user installation of Nix on this system. If you wish to enable multi-user support see http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-multi-user. If you wish to continue with a single-user install for $USER please run ‘chown -R $USER $dest’ as root." >&2 exit 1 fi |