Re: Uninstall/Install Guix

["Pierre-Henry F." <contact@phfrohring.com>]

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Monday, May 6, 2019 4:46 AM, Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Pierre-Henry,
>
> "Pierre-Henry F." contact@phfrohring.com writes:
>
> > I tried to remove and re-install again but here what I get:
> >
> >     phf@f02c:Downloads$ guix pull -l
> >     guix pull: error: stat: No such file or directory: "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/phf/current-guix-1-link"
> >     phf@f02c:Downloads$ guix describe
> >     guix describe: error: failed to determine origin
> >
> >
> > To uninstall:
> >
> >      sudo systemctl stop guix-daemon.service
> >      sudo rm -rf /gnu
> >      sudo rm -rf /var/guix
> >      sudo rm -rf ~/.profile/guix
> >      sudo rm -rf /etc/guix
> >
> >
> > To install:
> >
> >     https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
> >
> >
> > Well... I really don't understand how all of that works.
>
> Are you still having trouble, or were you able to resolve the issue?
>
> I'm not sure what you meant in your last email. Did you mean that you
> ran the uninstall commands, followed by the guix-install.sh script, and
> then when you ran "guix pull -l" you received the errors above?
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Chris


Hi Chris!

I ran the commands above and re-installed the whole thing for the 1.0 release ( congrats btw! :-) )
I bumped into two other things :

  Problem: `/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory
  Solution: sudo systemctl restart guix-daemon.service

  Problem: something about unknown origin after fresh install and `guix describe`.
  Solution: pulled once and it disappeared

Apparently, it works just fine now. I'm slowly adding whatever package I need and using `guix environment`
for development. Now the question is: how does Guix play with other package managers ?
Let's say that you need to use racket packages or something else... what does it cost to the developer
to use exclusively Guix? Is it even possible at all?

PHF