From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "christoph vogelsberg" Subject: General Question: Execution of binaries not built for GuixSD Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 01:21:25 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41633) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFUz8-0002PQ-2E for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:21:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFUz3-0005Zr-2i for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:21:33 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:56321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFUz2-0005ZX-P5 for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:21:29 -0400 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 Hello I have a fresh installation of GuixSD and I'm keen of learning more. I struggle with a concept and don't know how to circumvent best: Binaries built for ordinary Linux's (as, in my case, Firefox Developer Edition) expect libraries on certain standard pathes which doesn't exist on GuixSD. I found three possibilities that might work: * use fakechroot to make my user profile a pseudo root (disadvantage: I have no experience, it seams there is no package for that) * create symbolic links (disadvantage: new builts get a new path with a hash value and must be re-linked properly) * install a minimal Linux and use Guix instead of GuixSD (disadvantage: this would the point where I had capitulated) My question: is there an already elabored way, documentation and so on, for this specific problem? so long cvog (Christoph Vogelsberg)