nix-macos.md

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    Installing Nix on macOS in single-user mode

Nix manual
Using Nix's "Single-user Mode" on macOS

$ curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

$ sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist
$ sudo launchctl stop org.nixos.nix-daemon

Add the following line to ~/.profile:
NIX_REMOTE=""

Comment out the build-users-group line in /etc/nix/nix.conf:
# build-users-group = nixbld

Run the following commands:
$ for i in $(seq 1 32) ; do sudo dscl . -delete /Users/nixbld${i} ; done

$ sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/nixbld

$ sudo chown -R "$USER":staff /nix