Re: Outreachy internship with Guix

Re: Outreachy internship with Guix

[Gábor Boskovits]

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I will look into this and get back to you.

namrata malkani <nmalkani13@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 5., P
16:23):

> Hello sir
> I'm an outreachy applicant and would love to contribute GNU guix video
> documentation project.
> As a prerequisite, I began installation of guix as additional package
> manager on top of my linux based system.
> I downloaded guix-binary-0.15.0.x86_64-linux.tar from
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/ and procceeded with the
> binary installation process as mentioned in
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation.
>
> But when I tried to download the .sig file, using the command
>
> wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
> on my terminal, it returned an error:
>
> Connecting to alpha.gnu.org (alpha.gnu.org)|2001:4830:134:3::c|:21...
> failed: Network is unreachable.
>
> There wasn't a way to proceed further as the next step was to verify this
> file which couldn't be downloaded.
> Please suggest a possible way to tackle this. Looking forward to your
> reply and towards contributing in this organization
> PS. I have also joined the IRC channel #guix, nickname: namrataM.
> Regards
> Namrata Malkani
> B.tech, 2nd year, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi (IIT)
> India
>
>

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Re: Outreachy internship with Guix

[Gábor Boskovits]

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Hello Namrata,

Welcome to the GNU Guix community. Sorry fro my first very terse response,
I was at a mobile at the time, and wanted to forward your message to the
mailing list, so that it gets acted upon on a timely manner.

Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 5., P,
16:28):

> I will look into this and get back to you.
>
> namrata malkani <nmalkani13@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 5.,
> P 16:23):
>
>> Hello sir
>> I'm an outreachy applicant and would love to contribute GNU guix video
>> documentation project.
>> As a prerequisite, I began installation of guix as additional package
>> manager on top of my linux based system.
>> I downloaded guix-binary-0.15.0.x86_64-linux.tar from
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/ and procceeded with the
>> binary installation process as mentioned in
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation
>> .
>>
>
I'm glad that you got so far. You can download the signature file from the
download site directly, right below the download options for the binary
tarball, you see the links for the signatures.


>
>> But when I tried to download the .sig file, using the command
>>
>> wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
>> on my terminal, it returned an error:
>>
>> Connecting to alpha.gnu.org (alpha.gnu.org)|2001:4830:134:3::c|:21...
>> failed: Network is unreachable.
>>
>>
The .system. part in this url should be replaced by the system, for
example: x86_64-linux.
I did not see the above network error by the way.
Also note, that it is not a must to check the signature, but it is
recommended to do so.


> There wasn't a way to proceed further as the next step was to verify this
>> file which couldn't be downloaded.
>> Please suggest a possible way to tackle this. Looking forward to your
>> reply and towards contributing in this organization
>> PS. I have also joined the IRC channel #guix, nickname: namrataM.
>> Regards
>> Namrata Malkani
>> B.tech, 2nd year, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi (IIT)
>> India
>>
>>
Could you check again, if the problem still persist to reach alpha.gnu.org
from your location?
(it worked fine from my location at 17:16 utc).
Also, please take a look at building from source, as you might need that
for your contributions.

Best regards,
g_bor

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Re: Outreachy internship with Guix

[Björn Höfling]

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Hello Namrata,

welcome to Outreachy and Guix!

On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:28:08 +0200
Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote:

> I will look into this and get back to you.
> 
> namrata malkani <nmalkani13@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
> 5., P 16:23):
> 
> > Hello sir
> > I'm an outreachy applicant and would love to contribute GNU guix
> > video documentation project.
> > As a prerequisite, I began installation of guix as additional
> > package manager on top of my linux based system.
> > I downloaded guix-binary-0.15.0.x86_64-linux.tar from
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/ and procceeded with the
> > binary installation process as mentioned in
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation.
> >
> > But when I tried to download the .sig file, using the command
> >
> > wget
> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
> > on my terminal, it returned an error:
> >
> > Connecting to alpha.gnu.org
> > (alpha.gnu.org)|2001:4830:134:3::c|:21... failed: Network is
> > unreachable.

I checked the download-page and the links there are to the same server
(alpha.gnu.org). Because you see a "Network unreachable" instead of a
"file not found", I suppose your network does not permit
FTP-connections (i.e. port 21 being blocked).

As Garbor mentioned, the link to the signature is also on the download
page. Here is the direct link for x86_64:

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz.sig

Hope that helps,

Björn

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Re: Outreachy internship with Guix

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2018-10-05, Björn Höfling wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:28:08 +0200
> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote:
>> namrata malkani <nmalkani13@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
>> 5., P 16:23):
...
>> > But when I tried to download the .sig file, using the command
>> >
>> > wget
>> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
>> > on my terminal, it returned an error:
>> >
>> > Connecting to alpha.gnu.org
>> > (alpha.gnu.org)|2001:4830:134:3::c|:21... failed: Network is
>> > unreachable.
>
> I checked the download-page and the links there are to the same server
> (alpha.gnu.org). Because you see a "Network unreachable" instead of a
> "file not found", I suppose your network does not permit
> FTP-connections (i.e. port 21 being blocked).

Wild guess here, but might also be an issue in ipv6 routes, you could
try to force ipv4 with:

  wget -4 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig


live well,
  vagrant

Re: Outreachy internship with Guix

[namrata malkani]

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Thank you everyone, for your warm welcome and timely response. I downloaded
the key from the download site and proceeded to verify it. But the public
key was required so I ran the command to retrieve it:

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5

which alas again returned the error:

keyserver timed out

keyserver recieve failed.

I visited https://pgp.mit.edu/ to search the string
3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5 ( I guessed this must be the
string needed to be searched to extract the key)
 but that search returned "no such key found." I decided to proceed
with the installations then, and wrote the command as root
 (by  sudo -i ), to unpack the tarball in tmp folder:
/# cd /tmp
/# tar -xf guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz

And this is what it returned:
tar: guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz: Cannot open: No such file
or directory

I tried the same after saving the
guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz in tmp folder but again the some
result. I'm trying googling and

finding solution to this for now. Any help is most welcomed.


On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 10:53 AM Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
wrote:

> On 2018-10-05, Björn Höfling wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:28:08 +0200
> > Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> namrata malkani <nmalkani13@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
> >> 5., P 16:23):
> ...
> >> > But when I tried to download the .sig file, using the command
> >> >
> >> > wget
> >> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
> >> > on my terminal, it returned an error:
> >> >
> >> > Connecting to alpha.gnu.org
> >> > (alpha.gnu.org)|2001:4830:134:3::c|:21... failed: Network is
> >> > unreachable.
> >
> > I checked the download-page and the links there are to the same server
> > (alpha.gnu.org). Because you see a "Network unreachable" instead of a
> > "file not found", I suppose your network does not permit
> > FTP-connections (i.e. port 21 being blocked).
>
> Wild guess here, but might also be an issue in ipv6 routes, you could
> try to force ipv4 with:
>
>   wget -4
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
>
>
> live well,
>   vagrant
>

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Re: Outreachy internship with Guix

[Gábor Boskovits]

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Hello namrata,

namrata malkani <nmalkani13@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 6.,
Szo, 13:17):

> Thank you everyone, for your warm welcome and timely response. I
> downloaded the key from the download site and proceeded to verify it. But
> the public key was required so I ran the command to retrieve it:
>
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
>
> which alas again returned the error:
>
> keyserver timed out
>
> keyserver recieve failed.
>
> You can try this command without the keyserver argument, like:
 gpg --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
(this will try the default keyserver).

Actually any working keyserver will do just fine, they are synchronized.

> I visited https://pgp.mit.edu/ to search the string
> 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5 ( I guessed this must be the string needed to be searched to extract the key)
>  but that search returned "no such key found." I decided to proceed with the installations then, and wrote the command as root
>  (by  sudo -i ), to unpack the tarball in tmp folder:
> /# cd /tmp
> /# tar -xf guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
>
> And this is what it returned:
> tar: guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
>
> I tried the same after saving the guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz in tmp folder but again the some result. I'm trying googling and
>
>  finding solution to this for now. Any help is most welcomed.
>
>
>
From the error message above it seems, that tar does not find this file. My
first guess is that there something wrong with the version number here, the
version in the filename should be 0.15.0. Could you check the name of the
tarball again?

If after you made sure that you have the correct filename it still does not
work, you might also need xz-utils (or similar) installed, so that you can
extract the tarball, or you can unxz, then tar -xf, if your tar does not
autodetect the compression format.


> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 10:53 AM Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-10-05, Björn Höfling wrote:
>> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:28:08 +0200
>> > Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> namrata malkani <nmalkani13@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
>> >> 5., P 16:23):
>> ...
>> >> > But when I tried to download the .sig file, using the command
>> >> >
>> >> > wget
>> >> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
>> >> > on my terminal, it returned an error:
>> >> >
>> >> > Connecting to alpha.gnu.org
>> >> > (alpha.gnu.org)|2001:4830:134:3::c|:21... failed: Network is
>> >> > unreachable.
>> >
>> > I checked the download-page and the links there are to the same server
>> > (alpha.gnu.org). Because you see a "Network unreachable" instead of a
>> > "file not found", I suppose your network does not permit
>> > FTP-connections (i.e. port 21 being blocked).
>>
>> Wild guess here, but might also be an issue in ipv6 routes, you could
>> try to force ipv4 with:
>>
>>   wget -4
>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
>>
>>
>> live well,
>>   vagrant
>>
>
Best regards,
g_bor

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Re: Outreachy internship with Guix

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello Namrata,

Could you give us a status update?
Do you need any help?

Best regards,
g_bor

Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
6., Szo, 17:20):
>
> Hello namrata,
>
> namrata malkani <nmalkani13@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 6., Szo, 13:17):
>>
>> Thank you everyone, for your warm welcome and timely response. I downloaded the key from the download site and proceeded to verify it. But the public key was required so I ran the command to retrieve it:
>>
>> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
>>
>> which alas again returned the error:
>>
>> keyserver timed out
>>
>> keyserver recieve failed.
>>
> You can try this command without the keyserver argument, like:
>  gpg --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
> (this will try the default keyserver).
>
> Actually any working keyserver will do just fine, they are synchronized.
>>
>> I visited https://pgp.mit.edu/ to search the string
>> 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5 ( I guessed this must be the string needed to be searched to extract the key)
>>  but that search returned "no such key found." I decided to proceed with the installations then, and wrote the command as root
>>  (by  sudo -i ), to unpack the tarball in tmp folder:
>> /# cd /tmp
>> /# tar -xf guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
>>
>> And this is what it returned:
>> tar: guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
>>
>> I tried the same after saving the guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz in tmp folder but again the some result. I'm trying googling and
>>
>>  finding solution to this for now. Any help is most welcomed.
>>
>>
>
> From the error message above it seems, that tar does not find this file. My first guess is that there something wrong with the version number here, the version in the filename should be 0.15.0. Could you check the name of the tarball again?
>
> If after you made sure that you have the correct filename it still does not work, you might also need xz-utils (or similar) installed, so that you can extract the tarball, or you can unxz, then tar -xf, if your tar does not autodetect the compression format.
>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 10:53 AM Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2018-10-05, Björn Höfling wrote:
>>> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:28:08 +0200
>>> > Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> namrata malkani <nmalkani13@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
>>> >> 5., P 16:23):
>>> ...
>>> >> > But when I tried to download the .sig file, using the command
>>> >> >
>>> >> > wget
>>> >> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
>>> >> > on my terminal, it returned an error:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Connecting to alpha.gnu.org
>>> >> > (alpha.gnu.org)|2001:4830:134:3::c|:21... failed: Network is
>>> >> > unreachable.
>>> >
>>> > I checked the download-page and the links there are to the same server
>>> > (alpha.gnu.org). Because you see a "Network unreachable" instead of a
>>> > "file not found", I suppose your network does not permit
>>> > FTP-connections (i.e. port 21 being blocked).
>>>
>>> Wild guess here, but might also be an issue in ipv6 routes, you could
>>> try to force ipv4 with:
>>>
>>>   wget -4 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
>>>
>>>
>>> live well,
>>>   vagrant
>
>
> Best regards,
> g_bor