installing a package not from GNU

installing a package not from GNU

[Gottfried]

Hi,
I wanted to install a package "gtkhash" which I could not find in GNU 
packages.
How can I install it?
After downloading it and trying to install it, it said: unknown package

guix install gtkhash-1.4
guix install: Fehler: gtkhash-1.4: Unbekanntes Paket


What to do, if I don´t find a package in GNU and I would like to install it?


gottfried

Re: installing a package not from GNU

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Gottfried,

> I wanted to install a package "gtkhash" which I could not find in GNU
> packages.
> How can I install it?
> After downloading it and trying to install it, it said: unknown package
>
> guix install gtkhash-1.4
> guix install: Fehler: gtkhash-1.4: Unbekanntes Paket

Guix only knows of packages for which there is a package definition.
There is no package definition for gtkhash.

Guix unfortunately cannot just take any tarball and build it.

The good news is that writing a package definition (and optionally
adding it to Guix) can be straight forward.  This is the build system
file:

   https://github.com/tristanheaven/gtkhash/blob/master/meson.build

There we see that it needs a bunch of things (like nettle, blake2, zlib,
mbedtls, openssl, etc) for which we should have packages.  Packaging it
may be a little tricky because of the many dependencies, but it looks
doable.  We could do this together if you want.

Another thing I felt the need to clarify: Guix has thousands of packages
that are not GNU packages.  I think you meant that there is no package
definition for gtkhash in gnu/packages/*.scm, which is correct.

-- 
Ricardo

Re: installing a package not from GNU

[Gottfried]

Hi,

  "We could do this together if you want."

For me it's like to learn Chinese. I don't know where to start and where 
to finish. Almost everything is strange to me, if I look at the github 
repository.
So I am wondering that You are asking me for building it together.
The question would also be how long would it take, because I would have 
to learn programming. You would have to do almost all and I would need a 
lot of explanation, and I don't know if you have time for it.

gottfried


Am 23.02.22 um 23:36 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
> 
> Hi Gottfried,
> 
>> I wanted to install a package "gtkhash" which I could not find in GNU
>> packages.
>> How can I install it?
>> After downloading it and trying to install it, it said: unknown package
>>
>> guix install gtkhash-1.4
>> guix install: Fehler: gtkhash-1.4: Unbekanntes Paket
> 
> Guix only knows of packages for which there is a package definition.
> There is no package definition for gtkhash.
> 
> Guix unfortunately cannot just take any tarball and build it.
> 
> The good news is that writing a package definition (and optionally
> adding it to Guix) can be straight forward.  This is the build system
> file:
> 
>     https://github.com/tristanheaven/gtkhash/blob/master/meson.build
> 
> There we see that it needs a bunch of things (like nettle, blake2, zlib,
> mbedtls, openssl, etc) for which we should have packages.  Packaging it
> may be a little tricky because of the many dependencies, but it looks
> doable.  We could do this together if you want.
> 
> Another thing I felt the need to clarify: Guix has thousands of packages
> that are not GNU packages.  I think you meant that there is no package
> definition for gtkhash in gnu/packages/*.scm, which is correct.
> 

Re: installing a package not from GNU

[Gary Johnson]

Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:
> I wanted to install a package "gtkhash" which I could not find in GNU
> packages.
> How can I install it?
> After downloading it and trying to install it, it said: unknown package
>
> guix install gtkhash-1.4
> guix install: Fehler: gtkhash-1.4: Unbekanntes Paket
>
>
> What to do, if I don´t find a package in GNU and I would like to install it?

You need to create a Guix package definition for the package you want to
install. Assuming you have placed your definition in a file called
gtkhash.scm, you can install it with this command:

guix package -f gtkhash.scm

See the Guix manual for instructions on how to write a package definition.

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