switch-profile.md

Name

nix-env --switch-profile - set user environment to given profile

Synopsis

nix-env {--switch-profile | -S} path

Description

This operation makes path the current profile for the user. That is, the symlink ~/.nix-profile is made to point to path.

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Examples

$ nix-env --switch-profile ~/my-profile