As I said, I've tried installing it from the Arch repo and using Nix's installer (+ the adjustments described here [1]).
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/879#issuecomment-4109043...
Re:Our Roadmap for Nix
by SuperSandro2000 on Sunday August 07, 2022 @01:57PM
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The rsync requirement got recently removed.
Did you tried the method shown in Nix's site?
https://nixos.org/download.html
>I assumed that installing it from the official channel would do the job. It didnt't.
"Official channel" you mean from repos? That's a problem of your distro's package then, isn't it?