Hi,
I am trying to install pnpm with flox. While the package is available within the nix search, it does not appear in a flox search: NixOS Search.
How can I install it?
Thank you.
I wonder if this is not the sign of a larger issue. I have the same problem when trying to install scalafmt: NixOS Search.
Maybe the following warnings are relevant
warning: input 'etc-profiles' has an override for a non-existent input 'flox-floxpkgs'
warning: input 'flox' has an override for a non-existent input 'nixpkgs-flox'
warning: input 'flox' has an override for a non-existent input 'nixpkgs-flox'
warning: input 'flox' has an override for a non-existent input 'nixpkgs-flox'
warning: input 'etc-profiles' has an override for a non-existent input 'flox-floxpkgs'
warning: input 'etc-profiles' has an override for a non-existent input 'flox-floxpkgs'
warning: input 'etc-profiles' has an override for a non-existent input 'flox-floxpkgs'
This worked for me
flox install github:NixOS/nixpkgs#nodePackages.pnpm
Yeah that was exactly what I was going to recommend.
Right now flox search doesn’t traverse into very many sub-attributes. I believe we partially catalog python3Packages and nodePackages but since they don’t show up in search anyways I recommend just using the GitHub URI exactly as you’ve done until we can do some enhancements.
Why do I get the same issue with scalafmt which has no prefix?
That’s a good question.
Is it a relatively new package by any chance?
Good question. I don’t know how long it’s been in nix-pkgs, but one thing I just saw is
“not available on any platform”!
And for pnpm
“provides no program”
Maybe that explains why those 2 executables are not available via a regular flox search?
Great find. Yes I think that would most likely be the cause.
I bet those derivations are missing the meta fields that we check for.
Thank you for digging this up, you probably saved us a long investigation.