From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
To: Einar Largenius <jaadu@lysator.liu.se>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Missing built-in commands
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 05:12:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyw2cz8u.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sf4z3qum.fsf@lysator.liu.se> (Einar Largenius's message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:16:23 +0100")
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Hello Einar,
Einar Largenius <jaadu@lysator.liu.se> writes:
> I use guix on a foreign distro and the version of bash provided by guix seems
> to have many builtin commands missing.
>
> If I run /usr/bin/bash I have no issues and can use guix and everything else
> without issue, but if I run ~/.guix-profile/bin/bash (or just bash) from my
> terminal I get errors like these:
>
> bash: shopt: progcomp: invalid shell option name
> bash: shopt: progcomp: invalid shell option name
> bash: complete: command not found
> bash: complete: command not found
> #... and so on
>
> Other builtin commands like help also seems to be missing. Some input commands
> also don't work, instead printing things like ^P or ^N when trying to browse
> history.
What ~/.guix-profile/bin/bash points to? See:
readlink -f ~/.guix-profile/bin/bash
If it's ‘bash-minimal’, then try the ‘bash’ package insted, e.g.:
guix package --remove bash-minimal
guix package --install bash
Oleg.
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2023-11-21 18:16 Missing built-in commands Einar Largenius
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