Re: guix installation on nixos

[Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com>]

Guy fleury <hoonandon@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

Thanks for your help. I have done this but still having problems. I can
now run guix as root and install correctly.

However, if I setup for a normal user as in the manual:

cd /usr/local/bin
ln -s /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix

I still cannot make it work for that normal user. I made sure
/usr/local/bin is in PATH. But the guix command is simply not found.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers
Roy.

> Le mer. 13 févr. 2019 à 19:17, Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com> a écrit :
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I am having trouble installing guix on nixos. I have specified the build users and the guix daemon isystemd service in my configuration.nix file and all works. 
>
>  I am then following the binary installation instructions. As root I then try to test by running 
>
>  guix package -i hello
>
>  However rather than install the small hello package, guix is installing a large number of dependencies such as gcc etc. It is taking a long time. IS this normal ? 
>
>  I am also having trouble setting up the environme for running guix as non-root user.  
>
>  This is on a laptop.
>
> on debian i do this.
>  sudo chown guy: /var/guix/profiles/per-user/guy
> or 
> sudo chown -r guy: /var/guix/profiles/per-user/guy
>
> replace guy by your user name
>
>  Is this the right mailing list to ask for help ?
>
>  Thanks
>  Roy.
>
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