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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-04-09T15·57+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-04-09T15·57+0200
commit05420e788315f04212fe936313b3ff7b580a206c (patch)
tree624ce5e110525ae5386dc528d0115e68fe5c602a /doc/manual
parent258897c265a6d6575f1669a896ab6f5ab92337c3 (diff)
Manual: Add a missing step to the build instructions
Reported by Johan Grande.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/quick-start.xml7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/quick-start.xml b/doc/manual/quick-start.xml
index 606a93ad563a..55f88fe40d9d 100644
--- a/doc/manual/quick-start.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/quick-start.xml
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ to the following chapters.</para>
 <listitem><para>Download a source tarball or RPM or Debian/Ubuntu
 package from <link xlink:href='http://nixos.org/'/>.  Build source
 distributions using the regular sequence:
-        
+
 <screen>
 $ tar xvfj nix-<replaceable>version</replaceable>.tar.bz2
+$ cd nix-<replaceable>version</replaceable>
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ make install <lineannotation>(as root)</lineannotation></screen>
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ libxslt-1.1.0
 </para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>Install some packages from the channel:
-        
+
 <screen>
 $ nix-env -i hello firefox <replaceable>...</replaceable> </screen>
 
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ $ firefox
 <lineannotation>(read Slashdot or something)</lineannotation></screen>
 
 </para></listitem>
-    
+
 <listitem><para>Uninstall a package:
 
 <screen>