How to make choosenim look for ".choosenim/current" in another directory rather than $Home in Linux?

[ShivangKakkar]

Some Beginner Questions

1. I want my nim commands (nim c -r helloworld.nim) to look for ".choosenim/current" in another directory than $Home in Linux. How can I do that?

2. Is there a way to install binaries too in another directory than $Home/.nimble/bin so I don't have to cp to another directory and then add to path inititally?

Currently I'm using this command - curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh

Note that I would prefer not to get a one time solution as I'm writing a buildpack, which is to be used in different machines where nim is not initially installed.

Thank You!

[dom96]

There are multiple ways:

• You can set the HOME env.
• You can also set choonimDir by passing --choosenimDir: https://github.com/dom96/choosenim/blob/master/src/choosenimpkg/cliparams.nim#L83. Where the binaries end up can also be overriden via the nimbleDir flag.