Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:40 PM Marius Bakke wrote: > >> Mikael Djurfeldt writes: >> >> > To figure out where the package gets installed, try running this >> >> command: >> >> >> >> find /var/guix/profiles -name sv_SE.utf8 -type d >> >> >> > >> > It's obvious that that line will produce an empty result. That is because >> > the sv_SE.utf8 directory only exists in the store. But I don't see the >> > point of looking it up in the store. The problem is that the link into >> the >> > store from the root user profile is never created. (It *is* created in >> > other user profiles.) >> >> I suspected that Guix installed it to a different user profile somehow, >> since you did not get any errors apart from the missing directory (if I >> read the bug report correctly). >> >> Does 'guix install hello' work? >> > > Same problem there. > > But thank you for your hypothesis above! I tried a different line with ls > -lLR and grep and then discovered that the links *are* indeed installed in > a different profile. > > This led me to find my problem: For some reason, my ~root/.guix-profile was > pointing to the current-guix profile rather than the guix-profile. > > It could have been me who did that. :( Heh, at least you got a decent learning experience. ;-) > Anyway, problem solved! This was not a guix bug. Awesome, glad you found the problem! I'm closing the bug report.