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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 03363c170c..a56bda9c79 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -4156,6 +4156,15 @@ package definition. When importing a GNU package, the synopsis and descriptions are replaced by their canonical upstream variant. +Usually, you will first need to do: + +@example +export NIX_REMOTE=daemon +@end example + +@noindent +so that @command{nix-instantiate} does not try to open the Nix database. + As an example, the command below imports the package definition of LibreOffice (more precisely, it imports the definition of the package bound to the @code{libreoffice} top-level attribute): |