Re: Additional channels pulled, but cannot install/update software

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>]

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On 2022-06-25, ( wrote:
> On Sat Jun 25, 2022 at 9:05 PM BST, Simen Endsjø wrote:
>> No, I have the manual binary installation on a Manjaro host system.
>
> Once you pull for the first time, you should remove Guixen that you've
> installed through other means (like the debian package and binary
> installation). /usr/local/bin/guix is probably overriding the pulled
> Guix.

I'm not sure this is the best advice; other installations of guix should
not interfere with the pulled "guix" command as long as your PATH is set
up correctly. If PATH is not set up correctly, other things could be
wrong too...

There are cases where it may be fine to remove, but I don't think it is
good generalized troubleshooting advice, as it may hide other problems
with the installation.

By removing it a packaged or binary installation of guix from the
system, you also prevent other users on the same system from running
guix pull for themselves... or at least make it non-obvious or
otherwise more difficult than it needs to be.


live well,
  vagrant

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