Codeium Installation

[MattheDev53]

It feels like I've tried literally everything possible to get this thing to work and it just won't. I'm not at my computer right now (went to bed cause I'm tired), but I can share info later today.

I'm getting this error

error: Package ‘codeium-1.20.9’ in /nix/store/096c6m1vzz4zr46lhqc8c1ynwr4zpc0a-source/pkgs/by-name/co/codeium/package.nix:51 has an unfree license (‘unfree’), refusing to evaluate.
       a) To temporarily allow unfree packages, you can use an environment variable
          for a single invocation of the nix tools.
            $ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1
          Note: When using `nix shell`, `nix build`, `nix develop`, etc with a flake,
                then pass `--impure` in order to allow use of environment variables.
       b) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set
         { nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true; }
       in configuration.nix to override this.
       Alternatively you can configure a predicate to allow specific packages:
         { nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [
             "codeium"
           ];
         }
       c) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add
         { allowUnfree = true; }
       to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix.

I'm using flakes, on 24.11, with nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree in my special args and my configuration.nix

Any help is appreciated. I feel like I'm going a bit crazy, and I'm not very experienced with Nix/NixOS.

[MattSturgeon]

By default, nixvim sets up its own nixpkgs instance.

You can configure programs.nixvim.nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree.

You can also use programs.nixvim.nixpkgs.useGlobalPackages, but I don't recommend this option unless you understand the potential issues it can cause.

Regardless, you should never need to use specialArgs to configure you nixpkgs instance(s).