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Subject: Re: Self-contained Guix tarball
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On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> I=E2=80=99ve given that a try since it=E2=80=99s actually quite simple to=
 do.  The
> procedure in the attached file produces a self-contained tarball.  It
> contains the closure of Guix, as well as /var/guix and an initial
> /root/.guix-profile from which one can use the =E2=80=98guix=E2=80=99 com=
mands.
>
> I=E2=80=99ve uploaded the result (for x86_64) at:
>
>   http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guix-tarball-0.8.1.1140.tar.l=
z
>   http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guix-tarball-0.8.1.1140.tar.l=
z.sig
>   SHA1: afde62b3e9f97f9ae0c57eaccfaca842b157cd2f
>
> To install Guix on a foreign distro, follow these steps:
>
>   1. Download the tarball (38 MiB.)
>
>   2. As root, run:
>        cd /
>        tar xf /path/to/guix-tarball-0.8.1.1140.tar.lz
>      You need lzip and GNU tar.
>
>   3. Setup the daemon as explained in the manual, and run it from
>      /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon.
>
> And hopefully, that=E2=80=99s it.
>
> I haven=E2=80=99t actually tried it, so feedback is welcome!  :-)

It works perfectly!

- Dave