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From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Could not find bootstrap binary 'guile-2.0.9.tar.xz'
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:50:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ygfd0yxftg1.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87604s12j9.fsf@shack@muto.ca> (Muto's message of "Sun, 15 Apr 2018 17:19:06 -0600")


Maybe I'm being really silly, but don't you just do a guix pull as a
root user not as a normal user?

$ su
  PASSWORD

root # guix pull

Muto <shack@muto.ca> writes:

> Guix on a foreign machine (Ubuntu) works just fine for every account
> except my main user account. If I try running
> guix pull
>
> As that user, I get the error:
>
> guix pull: error: could not find bootstrap binary 'guile-2.0.9.tar.xz'
> for system 'x86_64-linux'
>
> If there is no easy solution, is there a way to completely remove the
> guix profile associated with my user account & add it back in? I could
> always re-install my programs.
> Thanks in advance.

       reply	other threads:[~2018-04-17 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87604s12j9.fsf@shack@muto.ca>
2018-04-17 20:50 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2018-04-18 19:56   ` Could not find bootstrap binary 'guile-2.0.9.tar.xz' Mark H Weaver
2018-04-18 21:53     ` Clément Lassieur
2018-04-19  0:03     ` Joshua Branson
2018-04-19 12:51       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-04-19 21:26         ` Joshua Branson
     [not found] <5ad3ddfd.471ac80a.eed6.d70eSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2018-04-27 14:48 ` Catonano
2018-04-27 16:32   ` Catonano
2018-04-27 17:16     ` Melon
     [not found]     ` <5ae35b00.1c69fb81.a62b3.f49dSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2018-04-27 17:52       ` Catonano
2018-04-15 23:19 Muto

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