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authorJeremy Shaw <jeremy@n-heptane.com>2015-12-06T17·00-0600
committerJeremy Shaw <jeremy@n-heptane.com>2015-12-06T17·00-0600
commit3afa16e16f32bc3f98a34beeb1437c926a7045fe (patch)
tree12f3d02a663055a4618ee75cf54aee8998153cb3
parentd1e3bf01bce7d8502610532077f6f55c3df4de2c (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.sh2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh
index 3efe7b38435e..c3da59980a0a 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