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Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh index 3efe7b38435e..bef5cd4f15fa 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 $dest’ as root." >&2 exit 1 fi @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ p=$NIX_LINK/etc/profile.d/nix.sh added= for i in .bash_profile .bash_login .profile; do fn="$HOME/$i" - if [ -e "$fn" ]; then + if [ -w "$fn" ]; then if ! grep -q "$p" "$fn"; then echo "modifying $fn..." >&2 echo "if [ -e $p ]; then . $p; fi # added by Nix installer" >> $fn |