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error: nix-shell requires a single derivation #9

Closed wallacekelly-da closed 5 months ago

wallacekelly-da commented 5 months ago

I am a nix-newbie. I was using the Daml + Nix instructions. I received an error that Google is not helping me resolve.

> git clone https://github.com/obsidiansystems/nix-daml-sdk.git
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> nix-shell --version
nix-shell (Nix) 2.22.1

> nix-shell ./nix-daml-sdk
error: nix-shell requires a single derivation
Try 'nix-shell --help' for more information.

This is on:

System Version: macOS 14.5 (23F79)
Kernel Version: Darwin 23.5.0

Any suggestions?

alexfmpe commented 5 months ago

nix-shell is a bit inconsistent in that it will default to shell.nix if you run it without args, but to <folder>/default.nix if you give it a file path. Try cd nix-daml-sdk && nix-shell or nix-shell nix-daml-sdk/shell.nix

wallacekelly-da commented 5 months ago

Thank you! That explained it.