From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guy fleury Subject: Re: guix installation on nixos Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 19:39:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8736oqwe4s.fsf@roylemmon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1guLud-0005Uf-1n for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:39:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1guLuc-000263-8l for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:39:07 -0500 Received: from mail-ot1-x32a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::32a]:35748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1guLuc-000245-0s for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:39:06 -0500 Received: by mail-ot1-x32a.google.com with SMTP id z19so12274636otm.2 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:39:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8736oqwe4s.fsf@roylemmon.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Roy Lemmon Cc: help-guix 2019-02-14 17:04 UTC+01:00, Roy Lemmon : > Guy fleury writes: > > Hi, > > Thanks for your help. I have done this but still having problems. I can > now run guix as root and install correctly. > > However, if I setup for a normal user as in the manual: > > cd /usr/local/bin > ln -s /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix > I still cannot make it work for that normal user. I made sure > /usr/local/bin is in PATH. But the guix command is simply not found. i have miss this. you can go to IRC Freenode #guix the guix developer will help you easily. > Thanks for any help. > > Cheers > Roy. > >> Le mer. 13 f=C3=A9vr. 2019 =C3=A0 19:17, Roy Lemmon = a =C3=A9crit : >> >> Hi, >> >> I am having trouble installing guix on nixos. I have specified the buil= d >> users and the guix daemon isystemd service in my configuration.nix file >> and all works. >> >> I am then following the binary installation instructions. As root I the= n >> try to test by running >> >> guix package -i hello >> >> However rather than install the small hello package, guix is installing= a >> large number of dependencies such as gcc etc. It is taking a long time. = IS >> this normal ? >> >> I am also having trouble setting up the environme for running guix as >> non-root user. >> >> This is on a laptop. >> >> on debian i do this. >> sudo chown guy: /var/guix/profiles/per-user/guy >> or >> sudo chown -r guy: /var/guix/profiles/per-user/guy >> >> replace guy by your user name >> >> Is this the right mailing list to ask for help ? >> >> Thanks >> Roy. >> >> -- >> ******************************** >> Roy Lemmon >> STFC Daresbury Laboratory >> United Kingdom >> ******************************** >