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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2006-09-28T09·10+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2006-09-28T09·10+0000 |
| commit | e2eed05224ed9bbc64014db9158bbc42bd3d9bef (patch) | |
| tree | a23905536d2644fd7bf80035b915f3011b987f95 /doc/manual/quick-start.xml | |
| parent | 4ad6fb7ea3e18361b6021a23a7401af4085d3602 (diff) | |
* Manual updates.
* Documented nix-{pack,unpack}-closure.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/quick-start.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/quick-start.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/quick-start.xml b/doc/manual/quick-start.xml index f520522dbef8..a89ac9336070 100644 --- a/doc/manual/quick-start.xml +++ b/doc/manual/quick-start.xml @@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ file).</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Subscribe to the Nix Packages channel. <screen> -$ nix-channel --add http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable</screen> +$ nix-channel --add \ + http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable</screen> </para></listitem> @@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ available remotely.</para></listitem> available in the channel: <screen> -$ nix-env -qa +$ nix-env -qa ’*’ <lineannotation>(mind the quotes!)</lineannotation> docbook-xml-4.2 firefox-1.0pre-PR-0.10.1 hello-2.1.1 @@ -109,13 +110,15 @@ to get rid of unused packages, since uninstalls or upgrades don't actually delete them: <screen> -$ nix-env --delete-generations old -$ nix-store --gc</screen> +$ nix-collect-garbage -d</screen> +<!-- The first command deletes old “generations” of your profile (making rollbacks impossible, but also making the components in those old generations available for garbage collection), while the second -command actually deletes them.</para></listitem> +command actually deletes them.--> + +</para></listitem> </orderedlist> |