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Installing Nix on macOS in single-user mode
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Installing Nix on macOS in single-user mode

$ 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 following line in /etc/nix/nix.conf:

build-users-group = nixbld

$ sudo dscl . -delete /Users/nixbld1
$ sudo dscl . -delete /Users/nixbld2
$ sudo dscl . -delete /Users/nixbld3
$ sudo dscl . -delete /Users/nixbld4
$ sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/nixbld

$ sudo -i nix-channel --remove nixpkgs

$ sudo chown -R ykomatsu:staff /nix

$ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
$ nix-channel --update
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