nix3-profile-list - Man Page

list packages in the profile

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

Synopsis

nix profile list [option…]

Examples

Show what packages are installed in the default profile:

# nix profile list
Name:               gdb
Flake attribute:    legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.gdb
Original flake URL: flake:nixpkgs
Locked flake URL:   github:NixOS/nixpkgs/7b38b03d76ab71bdc8dc325e3f6338d984cc35ca
Store paths:        /nix/store/indzcw5wvlhx6vwk7k4iq29q15chvr3d-gdb-11.1

Name:               blender-bin
Flake attribute:    packages.x86_64-linux.default
Original flake URL: flake:blender-bin
Locked flake URL:   github:edolstra/nix-warez/91f2ffee657bf834e4475865ae336e2379282d34?dir=blender
Store paths:        /nix/store/i798sxl3j40wpdi1rgf391id1b5klw7g-blender-bin-3.1.2

Note that you can unambiguously rebuild a package from a profile through its locked flake URL and flake attribute, e.g.

# nix build github:edolstra/nix-warez/91f2ffee657bf834e4475865ae336e2379282d34?dir=blender#packages.x86_64-linux.default

will build the package blender-bin shown above.

Description

This command shows what packages are currently installed in a profile. For each installed package, it shows the following information:

Name: A unique name used to unambiguously identify the package in invocations of nix profile remove and nix profile upgrade.
Index: An integer that can be used to unambiguously identify the package in invocations of nix profile remove and nix profile upgrade. (Deprecated, will be removed in a future version in favor of Name.)
Flake attribute: The flake output attribute path that provides the package (e.g. packages.x86_64-linux.hello).
Original flake URL: The original (“unlocked”) flake reference specified by the user when the package was first installed via nix profile install.
Locked flake URL: The locked flake reference to which the original flake reference was resolved.
Store paths: The store path(s) of the package.

Options

--json
Produce output in JSON format, suitable for consumption by another program.
--no-pretty
Print compact JSON output on a single line, even when the output is a terminal. Some commands may print multiple JSON objects on separate lines.

            See `--pretty`.

--pretty
Print multi-line, indented JSON output for readability.

            Default: indent if output is to a terminal.

            This option is only effective when `--json` is also specified.

--profile path
The profile to operate on.

Common evaluation options

--arg name expr
Pass the value expr as the argument name to Nix functions.
--arg-from-file name path
Pass the contents of file path as the argument name to Nix functions.
--arg-from-stdin name
Pass the contents of stdin as the argument name to Nix functions.
--argstr name string
Pass the string string as the argument name to Nix functions.
--debugger
Start an interactive environment if evaluation fails.
--eval-store store-url
The URL of the Nix store to use for evaluation, i.e. to store derivations (.drv files) and inputs referenced by them.
--impure
Allow access to mutable paths and repositories.
--include / -I path
Add path to search path entries used to resolve lookup paths
This option may be given multiple times.
Paths added through -I take precedence over the nix-path configuration setting and the NIX_PATH environment variable .
--override-flake original-ref resolved-ref
Override the flake registries, redirecting original-ref to resolved-ref.

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.
--repair
During evaluation, rewrite missing or corrupted files in the Nix store. During building, rebuild missing or corrupted store paths.
--version
Show version information.
Note
See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.