nix3-upgrade-nix(1)

    Warning
    This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.

Name

nix upgrade-nix - upgrade Nix to the latest stable version

Synopsis

nix upgrade-nix [option…]

Examples

•   Upgrade Nix to the stable version declared in Nixpkgs:

    # nix upgrade-nix

•   Upgrade Nix in a specific profile:

    # nix upgrade-nix --profile ~alice/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile

Description

This command upgrades Nix to the stable version.

By default, the latest stable version is defined by Nixpkgs, in nix-fallback-paths.nix and updated manually. It may not always be the latest tagged release.

By default, it locates the directory containing the nix binary in the $PATH environment variable. If that directory is a Nix profile, it will upgrade the nix package in that profile to the latest stable binary release.

You cannot use this command to upgrade Nix in the system profile of a NixOS system (that is, if nix is found in /run/current-system).

Options

•   --dry-run

    Show what this command would do without doing it.

•   --nix-store-paths-url url

    The URL of the file that contains the store paths of the latest Nix release.

•   --profile / -p profile-dir

    The path to the Nix profile to upgrade.

  Logging-related options

•   --debug

    Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.

•   --log-format format

    Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.

•   --print-build-logs / -L

    Print full build logs on standard error.

•   --quiet

    Decrease the logging verbosity level.

•   --verbose / -v

    Increase the logging verbosity level.

  Miscellaneous global options

•   --help

    Show usage information.

•   --offline

    Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.

•   --option name value

    Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).

•   --refresh

    Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

•   --version

    Show version information.

    Note

    See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.