Re: Newbie: Run previous version of Inkscape that exists in /gnu/store

[Soren Stoutner via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

The official channels do not seem to have retained the information 
necessary to build Inkscape 1.1.1.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/inkscape.scm

You would likely need to use an older version of the SCM to build 1.1.1. 
  Perhaps something like this:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/inkscape.scm?id=12c9e59600e90206d8defcbe29e26f606390240a

Once you do get a SCM that can build 1.1.1, you might be interested in 
using `guix shell` to run them side-by-side without having the 
configuration file from one cause problems for the other.

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-shell.html

Something similar to the following two commands would likely do what you 
want.


guix shell --container --no-cwd inkspace@1.1.1 -- inkscape
guix shell --container --no-cwd inkscape@1.2.1 -- inkscape


If you are using a local SCM for the older version of Inkscape, your 
first command might look something more along the lines of:

guix shell --container --no-cwd /path/to/inkscape1.1.1.scm -- inkscape

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Soren Stoutner
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On 2023-06-04 12:08, Rodrigo Morales wrote:
> I tried using that notation. However, `guix package -i' was not able to
> install it.
> 
> ,----
> | guix package -i 'inkscape@1.1.1'
> | echo "--- Exit code: $?"
> `----
> 
> ,----
> | guix package: error: inkscape: package not found for version 1.1.1
> | --- Exit code: 1
> `----