Re: A couple roadblocks using guix

[Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com>]

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>Are you sure you included a proper module(s)?
>(use-modules (gnu)
>            (gnu services ssh)
>             (gnu services networking)
>            (gnu services xorg)
 >           )

In the manual
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Networking-Services it
says The (gnu system networking) module provides services to configure the
network interface. Not (gnu services networking), I'll try that one though.


>This I experince too. In my opinion the reason is, that applications are
installed per user and the path to them is just in your ~/.guix->profile/.
I am not sure how WM searches for them, but definitely not in
~/.guix-profile, but I am not sure about this.

There must be a way around this since it probably searches in /bin and
/usr/bin, but their is a way to go around it if you could add the path
/gnu/store/*xterm(or whatever*/bin/xterm(or whatever

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Omar Radwan wrote:
>
>  I'm trying to install guix on my laptop(finally got the thinkpenguin wifi
>> card), after reading through the manual, I have everything setup, except
>> there are a couple bumps on the road.
>>
>> One of the things is that during system initialization, the (gnu system
>> networking) module returns an error which reads "guix system: error:
>> failed
>> to load operating system file '/mnt/etc/config.scm': (misc-error #f "~A
>> ~S"
>> ("no code for module" (gnu system networking)) #f)
>> and that kind of makes things really annoying to manually restart
>> networking every reboot.
>>
>
> Are you sure you included a proper module(s)?
> (use-modules (gnu)
>              (gnu services ssh)
>              (gnu services networking)
>              (gnu services xorg)
>              )
>
> (btw use guix system reconfigure /config.scm if you have already installed
> system)
>
>  Another thing is that is sort of a problem is during a windowmaker X
>> session, all my graphical applications(xterm, icecat, etc), are not listed
>> in the application menu and are not runnable, and I would think it has
>> something to do with user permissions, but an X session in root also
>> doesn't let me run them.
>>
>
> This I experince too. In my opinion the reason is, that applications are
> installed per user and the path to them is just in your ~/.guix-profile/. I
> am not sure how WM searches for them, but definitely not in
> ~/.guix-profile, but I am not sure about this.
>
>
>  The last thing is that I have not found any meta-packages, which allow me
>> to install multiple packages that are needed for the same program, like
>> for
>> instance, there is gcc, make, cmake, and all the bread-and-butter build
>> programs, but you have to name each in the "guix package -i *" declaration
>> to install, but if there was some metapackage, like buildessential (I come
>> from Debian).
>>
>>
>> That last peeve is really just a missing feature, I do understand that it
>> will take some time to implement and I'm not really demanding it, just
>> extremely recommending it. But the first 2 are definitely problems that I
>> really hope someone could help me with.
>>
>>
> Adam Pribyl
>
>

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