From: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
To: 30728@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30728: guix-install.sh doesn't work if run with "sudo"
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:20:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sgbdj2x.fsf@lassieur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zi3lh6mb.fsf@lassieur.org>
Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> My system is Ubuntu 16.04.
>
> I ran './guix-install.sh' and got the message: "This script must be run
> as root.". So I ran 'sudo ./guix-install.sh' and got an error message
> saying that:
>
> GUIX_PROFILE="${HOME}/.guix-profile"
> source "${GUIX_PROFILE}/etc/profile"
>
> the 'source' command doesn't work because ${GUIX_PROFILE} was never
> created, ${HOME} being /home/clement, not /root.
>
> To recover from this I had to manually delete /var/guix and /gnu, log as
> root with 'su', and start again.
>
> Clément
I believe the script should install Guix in the user's home directory,
not in ~root.
next parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-23 13:21 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <87zi3lh6mb.fsf@lassieur.org>
2018-03-23 13:20 ` Clément Lassieur [this message]
2018-03-25 5:16 ` bug#30728: guix-install.sh doesn't work if run with "sudo" Chris Marusich
2018-03-26 8:05 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-26 9:18 ` Marius Bakke
2018-03-27 7:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-27 9:11 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-27 16:08 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-28 19:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-29 5:07 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-29 8:26 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-29 7:48 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-29 10:07 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-30 22:07 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-29 8:04 ` Clément Lassieur
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