From: Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installing guix on nixos system
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:17:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH5rZC7ML2zn-bEmNkiZ76i4e6T-2HDLXEpKnKvEHq8ncqhe9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a74cbsy8.fsf@devup.no>
Hi Marius et al.,
Thanks for your help. That is clearer now. In fact that is what I did, ran
'guix pull' as user and the latest version of guix is installed in
~/.config/guix/current.
My problem now is that I can run guix from there if I use the full path
name:
$ ~/.config/guix/current/bin/guix --help
But if I just run:
$ guix --help
it doesn't recognise the command. Normally this would just be because I
have not added that directory to PATH as you say.
However here is the problem. I am using eshell in emacs. I have tried the
following:
$ (setenv "PATH" (concat "/home/rlemmon/.config/guix/current/bin:" (getenv
"PATH")))
$ addpath /home/rlemmon/.config/guix/current/bin
But still the same problem. I understand this is now an eshell problem
rather than a guix one. But if anyone has encountered this before ... ? Its
a frustrating problem !
Thanks
Roy.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:21 AM Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
> Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com> writes:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have followed the instructions in that link and successfully installed
> > the build users and guix daemon on my nixos system. As root, I can run
> >
> > guix package -i hello
> >
> > and the hello package is installed and I can run it.
> >
> > However I am having trouble setting up the environment for running guix
> as
> > a user (I am on my laptop, so there is only one user). guix is of course
> > not recognised as a command when I am the user. I can run it as
> > /usr/local/bin/guix so that is ok and I could put that in my PATH. But is
> > that all I need to do ? I am not sure where the guix packages are
> installed
> > as a user rather than root.
>
> I haven't read the linked blog post, but I think the next step is to use
> the Guix in /usr/local/bin to run 'guix pull' as your user. That will
> install the latest version of Guix in ~/.config/guix/current.
>
> Afterwards, make sure ~/.config/guix/current/bin comes first in PATH,
> then you should be able to use Guix normally.
>
--
********************************
Roy Lemmon
STFC Daresbury Laboratory
United Kingdom
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-19 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-16 12:15 Installing guix on nixos system Roy Lemmon
2020-03-16 14:34 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-16 14:39 ` Roy Lemmon
2020-03-18 13:38 ` Roy Lemmon
2020-03-19 9:21 ` Marius Bakke
2020-03-19 13:17 ` Roy Lemmon [this message]
2020-03-21 18:39 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-16 16:52 ` Leo Famulari
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