Hi,
It will be useful if you print the error message you get.
Le 14 févr. 2019 18:04, "Roy Lemmon" <roy@roylemmon.com> a écrit :

> Guy fleury <hoonandon@gmail.com> 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.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Cheers
> Roy.
>
> > Le mer. 13 févr. 2019 à 19:17, Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com> a écrit :
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  I am having trouble installing guix on nixos. I have specified the
> build 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
> then 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.
> >
> >  --
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> >  Roy Lemmon
> >  STFC Daresbury Laboratory
> >  United Kingdom
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