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From: Brian Woodcox <bw@inskydata.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Finally installed GuixSD 0.15.0 into a VM on Mac OSX
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 09:04:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A2D5DA4F-9148-4022-9092-6FE67B8194C9@inskydata.com> (raw)

So it finally happened after a few days of trying and the excellent help here.  Thanks to all.

I have a VirtualBox VM running on Mac OSX High Sierra.

Took a few days to compile everything from sources using --substitute-urls="https://berlin.guixsd.org”.  Don’t do this unless you are very patient.

There were a few problems along the way.

I think my initial problem was I was using the hydra site initially just before it went down.  Somewhere along the way I did a guix pull, etc and I couldn’t install guile-2.2.3 and guile-2.2.4.  So I decided to abort the whole thing and setup a new VM.

While installing the new VM, I found some issues with the install scripts:

bzip2 —> The correct fix from Leo was to download the file as follows—> guix download https://web.archive.org/web/20180624184835/http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz

texlive-20170524 —> From Mark, I downloaded from —> ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/2017/texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz

nss-3.36.1 —> So I received an answer on this, but no definitive solution.  Sorry, I had to edit the builder script and remove the tests to get this to install.  I guess I will install this properly later when it gets fixed.

guix-artwork-6998d30 —> So I have no idea how to download this file.  Instead, I (sorry Mark) edit the rsgj5syf4azvg4y80gqbr94gr4i9226y-guix-artwork-6998d30-checkout.drv file and changed it to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix/guix-artwork.git

I know your not supposed to edit these, but had I not, I would be waiting for a while.  When these are fixed, I will install them properly.

I guess I was the guinea pig to show that there are some issues with the install that need to be addressed.

Thanks everyone.  Now I can play with the fresh OS.

Brian. :)

             reply	other threads:[~2018-11-04 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-04 16:04 Brian Woodcox [this message]
2018-11-04 19:27 ` Finally installed GuixSD 0.15.0 into a VM on Mac OSX swedebugia
2018-11-04 21:52   ` Brian Woodcox

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