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

Name

nix profile remove - remove packages from a profile

Synopsis

nix profile remove [option…] elements

Examples

Remove a package by name:

# nix profile remove hello

Remove all packages:

# nix profile remove --all

Remove packages by regular expression:

# nix profile remove --regex ’.*vim.*’

Remove a package by store path:

# nix profile remove /nix/store/rr3y0c6zyk7kjjl8y19s4lsrhn4aiq1z-hello-2.10

Description

This command removes a package from a profile.

Options

--all

Match all packages in the profile.

--profile path

The profile to operate on.

--regex pattern

A regular expression to match one or more packages in the profile.

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Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.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.


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se