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From: "Tomás Chapunov" <tomaschapunov@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I retrieve the path to a Guix installed program from command line in a foreign distro?
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:08:35 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB3e=ne-22j6Usbhe43r2JSd8imgTY90fq8vjPoS_W4F7EHdwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFICax5oS6laSAgN@jurong>

That is what I was looking for.
Thanks, I'll check it out!

Tomás


El mié., 17 mar. 2021 10:21, Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> escribió:

> Hello,
>
> Am Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 09:32:29AM -0300 schrieb Tomás Chapunov:
> > Is there a canonical way to retrieve the full path in my profile to a
> > specific package with a command, in Guix on a foreign distro?
> > I used locate or find, but I can't figure out from the output how to
> detect
> > and select the correct one.
>
> I think you are looking for "which". This shows you which program would
> be executed depending on your $PATH variable, and assuming that the Guix
> directories are at the front of it, the Guix program will be preferred.
> Like so:
> $ which calibre
> /home/andreas/.guix-profile/bin/calibre
>
> This is actually the common pattern; you can expect the full path to be
> $HOME/.guix-profile/bin/name-of-the-binary
>
> Using this would follow updates of your user profile. If you want to know
> the real binary behind the scenes, you could use
> $ readlink `which calibre`
> /gnu/store/bhasa1a7pvv1icmdm6nrpscazw23pa03-calibre-4.18.0/bin/calibre
>
> It does not move, but thus can of course become outdated or even deleted
> when you do a "guix gc".
>
> Andreas
>
>

      reply	other threads:[~2021-03-17 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-17 12:32 How do I retrieve the path to a Guix installed program from command line in a foreign distro? Tomás Chapunov
2021-03-17 13:21 ` Andreas Enge
2021-03-17 14:08   ` Tomás Chapunov [this message]

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