From: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: installing a package not from GNU
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:09:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d504892-b20f-d1ec-abb7-e998929f3b33@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tucp9obw.fsf@elephly.net>
Hi,
"We could do this together if you want."
For me it's like to learn Chinese. I don't know where to start and where
to finish. Almost everything is strange to me, if I look at the github
repository.
So I am wondering that You are asking me for building it together.
The question would also be how long would it take, because I would have
to learn programming. You would have to do almost all and I would need a
lot of explanation, and I don't know if you have time for it.
gottfried
Am 23.02.22 um 23:36 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
>
> Hi Gottfried,
>
>> I wanted to install a package "gtkhash" which I could not find in GNU
>> packages.
>> How can I install it?
>> After downloading it and trying to install it, it said: unknown package
>>
>> guix install gtkhash-1.4
>> guix install: Fehler: gtkhash-1.4: Unbekanntes Paket
>
> Guix only knows of packages for which there is a package definition.
> There is no package definition for gtkhash.
>
> Guix unfortunately cannot just take any tarball and build it.
>
> The good news is that writing a package definition (and optionally
> adding it to Guix) can be straight forward. This is the build system
> file:
>
> https://github.com/tristanheaven/gtkhash/blob/master/meson.build
>
> There we see that it needs a bunch of things (like nettle, blake2, zlib,
> mbedtls, openssl, etc) for which we should have packages. Packaging it
> may be a little tricky because of the many dependencies, but it looks
> doable. We could do this together if you want.
>
> Another thing I felt the need to clarify: Guix has thousands of packages
> that are not GNU packages. I think you meant that there is no package
> definition for gtkhash in gnu/packages/*.scm, which is correct.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-24 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-23 18:52 installing a package not from GNU Gottfried
2022-02-23 22:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-24 17:09 ` Gottfried [this message]
2022-03-02 17:52 ` Gary Johnson
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