I’m attempting to use Flox on an HPC system (so no root permissions). Rather than just use the existing ghcr.io/flox/flox one, I’d like to add flox to our standard one, which I’m naively attempting by having:
wget https://downloads.flox.dev/by-env/stable/deb/flox-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.deb
sudo dpkg -i flox-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.deb
run as part of the build. But I get
ERROR: failed while looking for manifest and lockfile: failed to update environment: caught a nix exception: running pkgdb subcommand: error: could not set permissions on '/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user' to 755: Read-only file system
I’m thinking I can change these permissions as part of the build, but wonder if there’s a better way - if I could find the container definition that creates the ghcr image I could probably adapt that, but am not sure if such a thing is accessible.
Any advice greatly appreciated.