bug#61329: Info

bug#61329: Info

[Michela Francesconi]

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Hello,

I am using an ssh account that connects to an external server, i have
downloaded through guix some software like samtools and bedtools but when i
try to use them in my directory it gives me this error:

-bash: samtools: command not found

In my direcory, however, there is the directry guix.profile and if I go
into the bin folder of this, I have everything I downloaded and if I run:

./samtools

In that direcory, I can see it and works. But how I can use that software
packages in another folder? I try with:

PATH=$PATH:~/home/hub_galli/mfrancesconi/.guix-profile/bin export PATH

But it doesn't work. What I'm doing wrong? You can help me?


Thank you and best regards

Michela

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bug#61329: Info

[Parnikkapore via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

Hello, and welcome to Guix!

The "proper" way to run software installed using Guix is to activate the Guix profile; see https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Getting-Started.html for details. This sets $PATH for you, along with other environment variables that make sure e.g. new man pages can be found.

For setting $PATH manually, "~" is a shorthand for your home directory, so one of these two should work:

a)
PATH=$PATH:/home/hub_galli/mfrancesconi/.guix-profile/bin
export PATH

b)
PATH=$PATH:~/.guix-profile/bin
export PATH

Hope this helps!

bug#61329: Info

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On lun., 06 févr. 2023 at 14:36, Michela Francesconi <michelafrancesconi8@gmail.com> wrote:

> But it doesn't work. What I'm doing wrong? You can help me?

Welcome!

The purpose of the email list help-guix@gnu.org is for getting help.
Maybe it would be more suitable for asking help instead of reporting a
bug. :-)

I hope the message by Parnikkapore is answering your question.

Well, what do you think if this report is closed and instead the
discussion is happening in help-guix@gnu.org?  Since I am missing if it
is related to a bug. ;-)

Cheers,
simon