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From: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
To: Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@gmail.com>
Cc: Guile User <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using GUIX
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:29:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ98PDw2rWrxwHzrQ7sgq2j94GGx39V9-MWMF5guWs7vwk4cgw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd1b7a8f-8db2-13c6-3e8f-0edb970ac6ed@gmail.com>

Il giorno mar 18 dic 2018 alle ore 00:12 Zelphir Kaltstahl <
zelphirkaltstahl@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Hello Guile Users,
>
> I recently managed to install GUIX package manager. Now I always get the
> following warning, when I install any package:
>
> guix package -i hello
> guix package: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by
> 'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates.
>
> The following package will be upgraded:
>    hello        2.10 → 2.10
>  /gnu/store/md2plii4g5sk66wg9cgwc964l3xwhrm9-hello-2.10
>
> substitute: guile: warning: failed to install locale
> substitute: hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or
> `glibc-locales' package and
> substitute: defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:
> substitute:
> substitute:      guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
> substitute:      export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
> substitute:
> substitute: See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more
> info.
> substitute:
> substitute:
> nothing to be done
>
> I already installed both, glibc-utf8-locales and glibc-locales, but the
> warning remains.
>
> The value of GUIX_LOCPATH is:
>
> /home/xiaolong/.guix-profile/lib/locale
>
> And there is:
>
> /home/xiaolong/.guix-profile/lib/locale/2.28/
>
> and inside that there seem to be many locales installed, from "aa_DJ"
> all the way through to "zu_ZA.UTF-8".
>
> How do I fix this warning? Maybe there is a deeper problem at work here
> and I did something wrong? I think I used the installer script in the
> end, found on:
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
>
> Regards,
>
> Zelphir
>
>
this is a common difficulty when installing Guix on top of a so called
foreign distribution, I was unable to solve it myself

You might want to ask for help on the guix help mailing list
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-guix

You might also want to consider the guix development mailing list
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guix-devel


      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-18 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-17 22:48 Using GUIX Zelphir Kaltstahl
2018-12-18 12:59 ` 宋文武
2018-12-18 14:29 ` Catonano [this message]

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