Hi sirgazil,

sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm getting this error:
>
> ········································
> $ guix package -i guile-picture-language
> guix package: error: guile-picture-language: unknown package
> ········································
>
> As far as I can tell, my Guix version is up to date:
>
> ········································
> $ guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 0.16.0-9.4bddd12
> Copyright (C) 2019 the Guix authors
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> ········································

update your guix version with "guix pull": it's not enough up to date

> It happens only with this package. I can install other packages
> normally.

yes, that's because - looking at git logs - guile-picture-language was
added with commit 6bb5f88e1 on Sun Feb 3 01:37:12 2019 +0100 while your
guix commit (4bddd12) is dated Mon Jan 28 23:13:41 2019 +0100

guix is moving fast :-)

> What could this be? Are you able to install guile-picture-language?

yes, I was able to install precompiled from the default subsitutes
servers

this is my guix description:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix describe
Generation 6	Feb 14 2019 17:28:18	(current)
  guix 03d3732
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 03d373202347617056ef103d356575d068123db8
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

HTH!
Giovanni

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Xelera IT Infrastructures