Trouble with Rebuild

[GreenAnts]

Let me preface by the fact that I am pretty much a noob and trying to get my current nixOS Gnome over to wayland. For some reason following the nixOS wiki wasn't working to get wayland working and I eventually stumbled across this repo.

Everything seemed to go smoothly following the instructions until here:

cd nixos-config-reborn
git add .
nixos-rebuild switch --flake ./#<hostname>
# or nixos-install --flake ./#<hostname> if you are installing on a fresh system
home-manager switch

I am assuming it's possibly a typo and is supposed to b: nixos-rebuild switch --flake ./hosts/#<hostname>, because that is where the instructions had me create the directory (unless I am mistaken or missing something).

But even with that command, I end up with this error:

nixos-rebuild switch --flake ./hosts/tortoise
path '/home/tortoise/nixos-config-reborn/hosts/tortoise' does not contain a 'flake.nix', searching up
warning: Git tree '/home/tortoise/nixos-config-reborn' is dirty
error: flake 'git+file:///home/tortoise/nixos-config-reborn' does not provide attribute 'packages.x86_64-linux.nixosConfigurations."nixos".config.system.build.nixos-rebuild', 'legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.nixosConfigurations."nixos".config.system.build.nixos-rebuild' or 'nixosConfigurations."nixos".config.system.build.nixos-rebuild'

It seems like the flake file is supposed to be in the directory ( which wasn't clear to me in the direction...but I copied it over and it seemed to work, but then still gave the following error:

warning: Git tree '/home/tortoise/nixos-config-reborn' is dirty
error: flake 'git+file:///home/tortoise/nixos-config-reborn?dir=hosts/tortoise' does not provide attribute 'packages.x86_64-linux.nixosConfigurations."nixos".config.system.build.nixos-rebuild', 'legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.nixosConfigurations."nixos".config.system.build.nixos-rebuild' or 'nixosConfigurations."nixos".config.system.build.nixos-rebuild'

My guess is that step 5:

vim local-packages.nix
vim ../../nixos/packages.nix

needed something done? It said edit those files if needed, but since I am a noob, I don't know what that entails as of now, and left it blank. Am I supposed to edit these files to include the packages listed in the error message somehow? In reference to that, I can't seem to find vim ../../nixos/packages.nix either, however I did find the nixos/modules with multiple nix (dot?) files.

Sorry if this is really basic, but I am struggling my way through learning as I go - and hope you wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction.

Thanks

[levantu2003]

I think you have to use sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#<your host name>
Example: sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#slim3

[kk7453603]

I think you have to use sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#<your host name> Example: sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#slim3

Ypu are right.