Hi Ricardo,

thanks for your answer.

> The behavior of “guix pull” depends on an optional channels file, either
>> at /etc/guix/channels.scm or ~/.config/guix/channels.scm.  If you don’t
>> have either of these files Guix will use sensible defaults.

I have got:
~/.config/guix/current/ a bin etc lib and share folder and a manifest file
Are those the default?

I don't have a channel file or a manifest, because I don't know yet how 
to set it up, and what are the advantages for me at the moment to do 
that. In future, when I understand the advantages to do that, I can set 
them up.

> Do I regularly have to do a "sudo guix pull" for root?
>>>
>>> or is it enough that I did it once for setting up guix?
>> 
>> If you actualy use Guix with the root user account then yes.

What would be the benefit to use Guix with the root user account?


> For convenience you could link your user’s “guix” so that it is the same
>> for the root user; then you only need to take care of running “guix
>> pull” for your main user account.

How can set up a link from my user "guix" to the root user?

I guess this is also useful for my other laptop, where I have Guix 
system installed.

  Kind regards

Gottfried


Am 30.10.22 um 00:23 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
> 
> Hi Gottfried,
> 
>> I am very thankful for all the Guixers who worked and are working for
>> Guix, also for the manual...
>>
>> because against all hope I was able to install the Guix package
>> manager on another laptop on top of Trisquel on the basis of the
>> manual.
> 
> Congratulations!
> 
>> 1.  As far as I understand it I have to do
>>
>> guix pull
>>
>> and a
>>
>> guix package -u
>>
>> but no
>>
>> sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
>>
>> because there is no /etc/config.scm file
>>
>> Is that right?
> 
> Correct.  For the package manager all you need is “guix pull” and “guix
> upgrade” (or “guix package -u” or “guix package -m” etc).
> 
> The configuration file at /etc/config.scm is for an operating system
> declaration.  The “guix system” command deals with instances of Guix
> System, the GNU+Linux distribution.  If you do not use Guix System you
> don’t have any system to reconfigure.
> 
> You can still use “guix system” to build virtual machines and
> containers, but “guix system reconfigure” is not useful on a “foreign
> distribution”.
> 
>> Where is the relevant file for the guix package manager I installed?
> 
> The behavior of “guix pull” depends on an optional channels file, either
> at /etc/guix/channels.scm or ~/.config/guix/channels.scm.  If you don’t
> have either of these files Guix will use sensible defaults.
> 
>> 2.  Do I regularly have to do a "sudo guix pull" for root?
>>
>> or is it enough that I did it once for setting up guix?
> 
> If you actualy use Guix with the root user account then yes.
> 
> For convenience you could link your user’s “guix” so that it is the same
> for the root user; then you only need to take care of running “guix
> pull” for your main user account.
>