I installed guix on my Fedora 23 machine according to https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation. After that, I don't recall installing anything but guile. When I attempt to run the following command, I see a backtrace. # guix package -u "*" warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 157: 16 [catch #t # ...] In unknown file: ?: 15 [apply-smob/1 #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 63: 14 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...] In ice-9/eval.scm: 432: 13 [eval # #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 2401: 12 [save-module-excursion #] 4050: 11 [#] 1724: 10 [%start-stack load-stack ...] 1729: 9 [#] In unknown file: ?: 8 [primitive-load "/gnu/store/85nyj4lz480mxaj5szffli3c1k2rbhfn-guix-0.8.3/bin/.guix-real"] In guix/ui.scm: 1032: 7 [run-guix-command package "-u" "*"] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 157: 6 [catch srfi-34 # ...] 157: 5 [catch system-error ...] In guix/scripts/package.scm: 995: 4 [#] 854: 3 [process-actions (# # # # ...)] 566: 2 [options->installable (# # # # ...) #< entries: #>] In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 664: 1 [filter-map # ...] In unknown file: ?: 0 [make-regexp "*"] ERROR: In procedure make-regexp: ERROR: In procedure make-regexp: Invalid preceding regular expression # guix --version warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument guix (GNU Guix) 0.8.3 -- Jan Synáček