From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Lory EVANO <evano-lory@live.fr>
Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: error message : user with UID 120300 not found / guix install: error: while creating directory `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/evanol': Permission denied
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 13:17:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200822171749.GD10275@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PR3PR06MB6730011B070BC24EC3AC334C805A0@PR3PR06MB6730.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 04:26:10PM +0000, Lory EVANO wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new with Guix and I am currently trying to install it as a root on a VM. I followed the steps described in the Guix manual (https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html). After the installation, I tried guix as a user (not root). I tried to install a simple package such as zlib but I had the following error message :
> user with UID 120300 not found
> guix install: error: while creating directory `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/evanol': Permission denied
> hint: Please create the `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/evanol' directory, with you as the owner.
>
> Do you have an idea how I could solve this problem ?
It should have "Just worked" based on the instructions you followed.
Does the /var/guix directory exist? What are its permissions?
Also, did you try the hint?
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2020-08-20 16:26 error message : user with UID 120300 not found / guix install: error: while creating directory `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/evanol': Permission denied Lory EVANO
2020-08-22 17:17 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-09-03 16:28 ` Lory EVANO
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