From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Wilms Subject: Re: Package Install Question for New User Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 18:36:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2507D003-6E8F-4DDB-BF8F-68565E56CA35@inskydata.com> Reply-To: t_w_@freenet.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJiqB-0000wR-LC for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:39:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJiq7-00019w-8a for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:39:07 -0500 Received: from mout0.freenet.de ([2001:748:100:40::2:2]:56752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJiq6-000165-Vp for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:39:03 -0500 Received: from [195.4.92.164] (helo=mjail1.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID t_w_@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.90_1 #2) id 1gJiq5-0003vw-Kw for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:39:01 +0100 Received: from [::1] (port=38268 helo=mjail1.freenet.de) by mjail1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID t_w_@freenet.de) (Exim 4.90_1 #2) id 1gJiq5-0001He-KH for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:39:01 +0100 Received: from sub1.freenet.de ([195.4.92.120]:37866) by mjail1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID t_w_@freenet.de) (Exim 4.90_1 #2) id 1gJina-0007ZW-7Y for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:36:26 +0100 Received: from p200300e4f3eeb3005566196346723b65.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([2003:e4:f3ee:b300:5566:1963:4672:3b65]:57778) by sub1.freenet.de with esmtpsa (ID t_w_@freenet.de) (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:256) (port 465) (Exim 4.90_1 #2) id 1gJina-0001Fi-56 for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:36:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <2507D003-6E8F-4DDB-BF8F-68565E56CA35@inskydata.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org On 05/11/2018 17.33, Brian Woodcox wrote: > I then trying to install a package from the terminal. How about > icecat. So I issue the command to install that. > > All of a sudden the system is downloading and compiling a pile of > packages that were already installed as root. There is a single system-wide store for derivations at /gnu/store. The derivations are installed packages plus dependencies and removed packages that haven't been garbage-collected, yet. If a package is already in the store, installing it for a specific user should only require symlinks to be added, as far as I understand. Unless a dependency is missing. For example, I have "gimp" in my profile, pointing to an item in the store: --- ~: which gimp /home/thorwil/.guix-profile/bin/gimp ~: ls -l /home/thorwil/.guix-profile/bin/gimp lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 64 Jan 1 1970 /home/thorwil/.guix-profile/bin/gimp -> /gnu/store/wzp4ci2myckcg9qjqgm84rzv23snyz4d-gimp-2.10.6/bin/gimp --- Thus it seems you misinterpreted some output (or there is a bug). The results of guix working through the entire dependency chain for build, installation and runtime of a package can be rather surprising. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/