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Subject: Re: Could not find bootstrap binary 'guile-2.0.9.tar.xz'
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:50:54 -0400
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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.