From: Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: Jim Newsome <jim@sporksmith.net>
Cc: john.kehayias@protonmail.com, guix-devel@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 03:04:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a63edgch.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44635a7b-f8dc-4bea-935a-15e6a41ffa88@sporksmith.net>
Jim Newsome <jim@sporksmith.net> writes:
> Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online
> and don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly.
>
> Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this
> feature, and was able to use it to get a downloaded [Tor Browser
> Bundle] running with:
>
>
> ```
> guix shell \
> --container \
> --network \
> --emulate-fhs \
> --preserve='^DISPLAY$'
> --share=/run/user/$(id -u)/gdm \
> openssl@1 \
> libevent \
> pciutils \
> dbus-glib \
> bash \
> libgccjit \
> libcxx \
> gtk+ \
> coreutils \
> grep \
> sed \
> file \
> alsa-lib \
> -- \
> ./start-tor-browser.desktop -v
> ```
>
> `--preserve='^DISPLAY$'` and `--share=/run/user/$(id -u)/gdm` are to
> get access to the display. I'm not sure the second parameter is
> universally correct; I reverse-engineered it via roughly `ps aux |
> grep -- -auth`.
>
> The `-v` parameter to the browser script keeps it from trying to
> background itself, which otherwise causes the container and browser to
> terminate.
>
> It'd ultimately be nice to package the Tor Browser Bundle properly for
> guix, but it's nice to be able to use it this way in the meantime.
>
> -Jim
>
> [Tor Browser Bundle]: https://www.torproject.org/download/
Any idea how to use this for running appimages? Or anything that
requires FUSE in general?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-23 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-16 23:39 Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container Jim Newsome
2022-12-19 21:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-23 2:04 ` Csepp [this message]
2022-12-26 5:36 ` John Kehayias
2023-01-04 17:47 ` John Kehayias
2023-01-04 18:07 ` Jim Newsome
2023-01-04 18:16 ` John Kehayias
2023-01-04 18:18 ` [bug#60112] " jman via Guix-patches via
2023-01-05 21:00 ` [bug#60112] [PATCH] website: Add post about guix shell fhs option Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-05 21:03 ` John Kehayias via Guix-patches via
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-12-05 2:32 Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container John Kehayias
2022-12-05 6:51 ` Wojtek Kosior via
2022-12-12 5:46 ` John Kehayias
2022-12-06 10:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-12 6:33 ` John Kehayias
2022-12-15 14:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-16 7:35 ` John Kehayias
2022-12-09 17:56 ` zimoun
2022-12-12 5:49 ` John Kehayias
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