# Developing with flox

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## [Am I holding \`flox develop\` wrong?](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/am-i-holding-flox-develop-wrong/599)

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**Author:** [@jacob](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/jacob)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [January 24, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/am-i-holding-flox-develop-wrong/599 "2023-01-24T19:13:49Z")

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I’ve played with flox enough that I’m looking to integrate it into some of our open source projects as a test bed where we already have other methods of local development present (devcontainers, Docker). Once others have…

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## [What can I do about this warning? "flag ... does not match any input"](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/what-can-i-do-about-this-warning-flag-does-not-match-any-input/616)

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**Author:** [@etorreborre](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/etorreborre)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/what-can-i-do-about-this-warning-flag-does-not-match-any-input/616 "2023-01-14T12:55:33Z")

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Hi, I am getting the following warning when running flox develop ± flox develop warning: the flag '--override-input flox-floxpkgs/nixpkgs/nixpkgs flake:nixpkgs-stable' does not match any input This is with 0.0.8-r123 …

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## [Can't publish a package on aarch64](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/cant-publish-a-package-on-aarch64/614)

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**Author:** [@etorreborre](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/etorreborre)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/cant-publish-a-package-on-aarch64/614 "2023-01-13T19:11:25Z")

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Hi, I am setting up a new macbook with an aarch64 architecture instead of x86. Most of the reinstalls are going great so far but this one doesn’t work Building cheat-sh ... warning: the flag '--override-input flox-flox…

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## [Function called without the required argument](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/function-called-without-the-required-argument/581)

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**Author:** [@etorreborre](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/etorreborre)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [December 28, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/function-called-without-the-required-argument/581 "2022-12-28T18:17:31Z")

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I am using flox r98 (from the prerelease environment) and I specified export FLOX\_STABILITY=unstable in order to access the latest rust compiler (1\_65). However when I executed flox develop I got this error: ± flox dev…

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## [Upgrading flox, am I doing the right thing?](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/upgrading-flox-am-i-doing-the-right-thing/550)

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**Author:** [@etorreborre](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/etorreborre)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/upgrading-flox-am-i-doing-the-right-thing/550 "2022-12-06T11:25:35Z")

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A new flox version just came out, r84, and I wanted to install it. I did a flox pull flox/default and eventually did: flox search -c flox flox flox rm -e flox/default stable.flox.flox flox install -e flox/default stabl…

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## ["File exists" errors](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/file-exists-errors/543)

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**Author:** [@etorreborre](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/etorreborre)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/file-exists-errors/543 "2022-12-06T10:55:18Z")

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When I use flox build I often get errors like this ± flox build --fallback …

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## [Using direnv with flox](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/using-direnv-with-flox/510)

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**Author:** [@etorreborre](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/etorreborre)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 22, 2022, 11:21am UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/using-direnv-with-flox/510 "2022-11-22T11:21:44Z")

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This is a quick tip which seems to be working well. If you work on a project which always needs some tools present in a specific environment you can use direnv to automatically load the right environment: install dire…

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## [How to search for specific packages](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/how-to-search-for-specific-packages/480)

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**Author:** [@etorreborre](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/etorreborre)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/how-to-search-for-specific-packages/480 "2022-11-18T15:36:09Z")

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I am trying to floxify one of my libraries. However I am finding it difficult to find which are the correct dependencies for the project. In particular I depend on tasty-hedgehog which must have a version between 1.2 a…

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## [Manage a project with an existing flake with flox](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/manage-a-project-with-an-existing-flake-with-flox/484)

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**Author:** [@etorreborre](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/etorreborre)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 11, 2022, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/manage-a-project-with-an-existing-flake-with-flox/484 "2022-11-11T08:50:28Z")

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I am trying to understand what makes sense and what doesn’t. Let’s say I would like to publish the hasktorch project under my own flox catalog and use flox build as I would normally do. hasktorch is a already using a fl…

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