From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mason Hock Subject: how to install from binary Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:30:36 -0800 Message-ID: <1510525836.2397.1.camel@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59573) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eE0m4-0000CI-UK for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 17:30:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eE0m0-0000aw-2m for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 17:30:44 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22c]:57012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eE0lz-0000aX-Sb for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 17:30:40 -0500 Received: by mail-oi0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id a81so3833oii.13 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.16.42.5] (wsip-184-191-152-229.sb.sd.cox.net. [184.191.152.229]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id w66sm2688345oig.51.2017.11.12.14.30.37 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:30:38 -0800 (PST) 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 Guix seems to be building everything from source, which can take a while. As per these instructions I tried # cd [prefix]/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub # guix archive --authorize < hydra.gnu.org.pub and got guile: warning: failed to install locale warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument with no other output. I get that error almost every time I try to do something with Guix and it usually works anyway. Since I got no other errors I just kept going with $ guix build emacs --dry-run and got "The following derivations would be built:" so apparently it did not work. During an installation I do see a lot of "updating list of substitutes" messages, but I also frequently see the word "build" and a lot of .c and .h files go by, which combined with the long installation time makes me doubt that it is actually downloading binaries from the substitutes and installing them.