From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Reza Alizadeh Majd" Subject: Installing Guix from source Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:16:16 +0430 Message-ID: <28c42c19-88ce-45b4-819c-c19bf086722a@www.fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmXL2-0000cy-7Q for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 01:46:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hmXL1-0004gq-5R for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 01:46:20 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:49807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hmXL0-0004gC-SJ for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 01:46:19 -0400 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6F7210DC for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 01:46:17 -0400 (EDT) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org Hi Guix, I tried to build Guix from source on an existing version of GuixSD. so I followed the instructions provided in official documents: https://guix.info/manual/en/html_node/Requirements.html https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html after build finished, I had two versions of Guix on my machine, the old one which is located in store, and the new one which is installed in `/usr/local/bin`. the problem is that the old instance of guix is detected as default on my machine. since I performed a series of modifications on this new version, like changing the default channels and substitute servers, I need to replace old instance of Guix completely with this new one. Does anyone knows how can I perform this replacement? Best, Reza