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-rw-r--r--scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh
index 41e596e5f..00f23e0f4 100644
--- a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh
+++ b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ if ! $nix/bin/nix-env -i @nix@; then
exit 1
fi
+# Subscribe the user to the Nixpkgs channel and fetch it.
+if ! $nix/bin/nix-channel --list | grep -q "^nixpkgs "; then
+ $nix/bin/nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
+fi
+$nix/bin/nix-channel --update nixpkgs
+
# Add nix.sh to the shell's profile.d directory.
p=$NIX_LINK/etc/profile.d/nix.sh
@@ -31,4 +37,4 @@ variables are set, please add the line
to your shell profile (e.g. ~/.profile).
EOF
-fi \ No newline at end of file
+fi