Re: Guix on a foreign distro (Mint) - List of packages is outdated and not updatable

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le 23 avril 2019 22:02:00 GMT+02:00, MutoShack <shack@muto.ca> a écrit :
>I've been using Guix for a while on my Mint 19.1 machine. When Nano 4.0
>came out as a Guix package I was excited, so I ran:
>'guix pull && guix package -u'
>on my machine. It pulled Nano 2.9.3 from mirror.hydra.gnu.org (I
>recently had Nano 3.4 installed, which means Guix downgraded my
>package)
>
>My laptop computer, running GuixSD, pulled Nano 4.0 (and other new
>packages) perfectly fine.
>
>Running
>'/path/to/guix-daemon --substitute-urls="https://ci.guix.info"'
>and pulling yields the same result.
>Deleting '~/.config' on both user & root, then letting 'guix pull'
>regenerate them also did nothing.
>
>I tried changing my generation and deleting old generations.
>I tried the good old "RTFM" and "STFW" methods (reading info and
>websearching), but I could not find an answer. Maybe I misunderstood
>the
>information I found.

Hi, this sounds like you're not using she right guix, like a guix installed in your profile. If that's the case, every time you "upgrade", you actually downgrade guix itself and the packages it knoos about.

Make sure that ~/.config/guix/current/bin tomes first in your $PATH and run "hash guix" to make sure your shell refers to the right guix.