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13967 :: Nimble Installed Package in Linux

• ajaychat3 (orginal) [2026-06-08T05:31:33+02:00] view original

  I have installed nim as Arch Linux using pacman. When I tried to install a nimble package, it downloaded nim binaries tar and then installed it as a package in .nimble/pkgs2. Nim 2.2.10 is also there in .nimble/nimbinaries alongside tar package.

  If I delete the .nimble/nimbinaries or .nimble/pkgs/nim 2.2.10 manually it gets downloaded again when installing any nim package using nimble.

  Please help understand when nim 2.2.10 is already installed a linux package, why it also exists in .nimble folder as a package and under nimbinaries folder. Is there anything wring in this setup?

  I have reinstalled nim assuming a setup issue but seems it is not. Thanks

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• Leopotam (orginal) [2026-06-08T14:05:48+02:00] view original

  Its because one of package that you trying to install with nimble has requires "nim >= 2.2.10" field. For example, if you will try to install nimlangserver (with requires "nim == 2.0.8") - you will get another nim version here.

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• ajaychat3 (orginal) [2026-06-08T16:18:44+02:00] view original

  Thanks. I understand that if a package requires a specific version, nimble with download that. However, the nim installed using pacman is already 2.2.10 and same is getting duplicated in

   .nimble/nimbinaries
  Run

  and

   .nimble/pkgs2
  Run

  .

  Also none of the nim package installed has any dependency on prior nim version. It is all

   nim >= xx.xx.xx
  Run

  . May be I am missing some finer points about nim installation.

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• Leopotam (orginal) [2026-06-08T17:07:06+02:00] view original

  Deal with it, i have same behaviour on cachyos (arch-based distro).

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