Flox 1.19.3 is released!

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Flox Release 1.19.3

This release fixes brew upgrade flox failing on macOS with “An existing package already provides the following file”. The error appeared when upgrading a Homebrew install of Flox for the second time or later, and leaves the system without /nix mounted after a reboot.

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If Flox reached 1.19.1 or 1.19.2 on your Mac through brew upgrade, a plain brew upgrade flox to 1.19.3 will still fail, because Homebrew runs the old release’s uninstall script first. Run the recovery script included below instead; it repairs the installation and upgrades Flox to 1.19.3. The script uses sudo but shouldn’t be run as root, since brew refuses to run as root.

curl -fsSL https://github.com/flox/flox/releases/download/v1.19.3/recover-brew-upgrade.sh | sh

Other Fixes

  • Upgrading Flox on Debian and Ubuntu now restarts nix-daemon with its updated configuration.
  • apt remove flox now removes the nixbld users and group on Debian and Ubuntu.

Download Links

You can find the SHA256 checksums for Flox 1.19.3 and SHA512 checksums for Flox 1.19.3 online.