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nixos error
error: Package ‘Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.40.vbox-extpack’ in /nix/store/6k5n9v6j37g9bari1a5cj5cg6pqrdd4k-source/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix:19 has an unfree license (‘virtualbox-puel’), refusing to evaluate.
a) To temporarily allow unfree packages, you can use an environment variable
for a single invocation of the nix tools.
$ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1
Note: For `nix shell`, `nix build`, `nix develop` or any other Nix 2.4+
(Flake) command, `--impure` must be passed in order to read this
environment variable.
b) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set
{ nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true; }
in configuration.nix to override this.
Alternatively you can configure a predicate to allow specific packages:
{ nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [
"Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack"
];
}
c) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add
{ allowUnfree = true; }
to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
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