Questions tagged [guix]
For questions about GNU Guix, a package manager for the GNU System. It is based on the Nix package manager with Guile Scheme APIs and specializes in providing exclusively free software.
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Can I (install and) use guix-home on a non-Guix Linux distribution?
I'm interested in setting up an environment of apps, libraries and utilities for use - independently and in conjunction - by a non-root user on a GNU/Linux system. Can I use GUIX's "home" ...
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Do GUIX and NixOS differ architecturally?
(This is not a "which distribution is better" question!)
GNU GUIX and NixOS are two Linux distributions based on the NixOS package manager.
I realize that GUIX seems to use Guile for ...
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In Guix, how to figure out which package in a manifest adds a specific dependency to the profile?
I've made my Guix system entirely declarative, always adding packages through guix package -m mymanifest.scm.
Sometimes this fails because of conflicting dependencies. E.g. right now I have gcc-...
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Installing Neovim v0.8.1 with Guix makes some treesitter parser unusuable because of GLIBCXX_3.4.29 not found
It seems that guix compile neovim with gcc 10.3 which does not come with GLIBCXX_3.4.29 (like described here). The exact error provided while opening neovim with an html file for example is :
Error ...
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Is there a Guix equivalent of nix-shell shebangs?
I want to write a script which executes within a specific guix shell environment. I'm hoping there's an equivalent version of the nix-shell shebang. For example, it would be cool to write something ...
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How to update the Grub list on the Guix OS?
I installed the Guix OS in a partition of my HDD for testing, alongside my daily OS partition. Now the previous grub is overwritten and my daily distro is not accessible anymore.
I didn't found "...
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How to install GEMMA2 (gemma2lib) on GNU Guix over Ubuntu 22.04 running via WSL2?
I'm running Windows subsystem for Linux 2 (Ubuntu 22.04).
I'd like to run GEMMA2 (gemma2lib): in the link it is said:
~/opt/guix/bin/guix package -i python python-toolz -p ~/opt/gemmalib
. ~/opt/...
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How to use an inferior when input rewriting in GUIX?
The GUIX Inferiors manual states that
Thus you can insert an inferior package pretty much anywhere you
would insert a regular package: in manifests, in the packages field of
your operating-system ...
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In GUIX, how to use a old version of a package, no longer in the channel?
Part of what attracted me to GUIX is that various different versions of packages can be 'installed' at the same time without interfering with each other. But I can't figure out how to actually use ...
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How to rid onself of the locales hint from the Guix package manager
Every time I run the package manager Guix on a foreign distro I'm greeted with the following "hint":
hint: Consider installing the glibc-utf8-locales' or glibc-locales'
package and defining ...
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guix pull throws "match-error"
i have installed package guix (on debian bullseye).
and try to run guix pull as it is written in the documentation:
$ sudo -i guix pull
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git....
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How to allow "guix-daemon" to "remount" in SELinux?
I've installed Guix and installed the bundled SELinux policy manually. But according to Ricardo Wurmus, as of 30 June 2021:
There are really just two ways: either 1) disable SELinux (or set it to ...
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How to install SELinux policy for guix-daemon.service on Fedora?
After installing Guix, how do I install the bundled SELinux policy, which is intended to allow the guix-daemon.service to run?
To install Guix 1.3.0 on Fedora 34 Workstation, I used the shell ...
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How do I garbage collect a Guix System generation?
Running sudo guix gc --list-roots on my Guix System I see a lot of system generations lying around, going all the way back to when I first installed the system.
$ sudo guix gc --list-roots
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/var/...
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How do I remove a Guix gc-root
When I list my current Guix garbage collection roots I find a root that I want to remove, the last one which belongs to a project I no longer develop.
$ guix gc --list-roots
/var/guix/profiles/per-...
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Why does guix install default to .guix_profile while guix pull defaults to .config/guix/current?
Guix having multiple profiles as nice but having two different default profiles is confusing and I'm unclear as to what the benefit of having two is supposed to be. Surely a single default profile ...
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What is Nix equivalent of "guix challenge"?
In Guix user can verify reproducibility of a package with guix challenge https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-challenge.html.
What is the Nix command for that?
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Why is there no OpenJDK 8 packaged for guix?
When I search the Guix repository there are only versions of OpenJDK from 9 and up, but I want to install OpenJDK 8. Why is there no version 8?
$ guix search openjdk | recsel -p name,version
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How do I show only the name of results from `guix search`
When I run for example guix search openjdk I get a long list of information, most of which I'm not interested in:
name: openjdk
version: 9.181
outputs: out jdk doc
systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux
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Install fonts in Guix System
How do I install a font in Guix System? (Not installed in graphical environment)
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wpa_supplicant + dhclient loose connection when downloading file of 4Gb
I have two wifi-adapters: inner and usb. I always use external usb wifi adapter, because it shows better signal power and better speed. It started to loose connection every day twice or 4-5 times a ...
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Enable volume management in Thunar on a Guix System
On my system I have installed both thunar and thunar-volman:
$ guix package --list-installed | grep thunar
thunar-volman 0.9.5 out /gnu/store/yp5xyyvvc59ivghszgyfwy3izd8jvqz0-thunar-volman-0.9.5
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List all packages installed with Guix
How do I list all the packages installed through Guix? On Ubuntu this would be done through dpkg -l.
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Shadowsocks profile configuring in GuixSystem
I have this problem in configuring Shadowsocks profile:
$ ssserver -c profile.json
/gnu/store/yvjgk9n6xzpr32maq1mqw1ij2vhm9jxb-shadowsocks-2.8.2-0.e332ec9/lib/python3.8/site-packages/shadowsocks/...
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How do I install Clojure on a Guix System?
After running
guix system install clojure
I find that there is no clojure or clj on my $PATH.
I was told on the #guix@freenode IRC that one can get the path to the contents of a package by running ...
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Use a python projects requirements.txt as input to a Guix package definition?
I have an existing Python project made by a friend that contains a requirements.txt that pip install -r normally consumes. A project that is not published to PyPI. Say that I wanted to use Guix as the ...
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Guix System Problem with GNOME Boxes
To build a virtual machine with GNOME Boxes, I have this problem:
"virtualization extensions are unavailable on your system. Check your
bios settings to enable them."
what's the solution?
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Is there a Guix equivalent of nix-shell?
As the manual page for nix-shell describes it:
Nix can be used to provides some kind of virtual environment through the nix-shell command.
Much like Python developers commonly create a virtual ...
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How to enable bluetooth in GUIX?
I'm trying to enable Bluetooth on my GUIX machine, and I do not understand the instructions:
Scheme Procedure: bluetooth-service [#:bluez bluez] [#:auto-enable? #f]
Return a service that runs the ...
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Black screen in Guix System installation
I have this problem to install Guix System:
After this, the screen turns black and nothing is displayed.
I first downloaded the Guix System, extracted the iso with this command: "unxz" and ...
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Which package in Guix provides command/binary $x?
Say I want to find out which package provides binary $x on my Guix system. On a Debian based system I would use the command apt-file search $x and on a RedHat system I would use yum whatprovides $x; ...
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Can you run `guix deploy` on other linux distributions?
Guix can be run on other linux distributions.
But can guix deploy provision machines running debian?
I think nixops requires machines to use nixos.
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What is the difference between `guix install` and `guix pull`?
Both packages seem to download packages and update some profiles, but why do I need both?
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What is the difference between `~/.guix-profile` and `~/.config/guix/current`
I have just installed GUIX on top of my Arch Linux, however, I still have difficulties to understand some of the concepts. I understand that a profile is a selection of packages from /gnu/store and ...
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What is the file to be specified in guix system reconfigure?
The documentation for guix system reconfigure says:
Build the operating system described in file, activate it, and switch to it.
A cursory search didn't bring up any information on what or where ...
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Compile program in GNU GuixSD with cmake
I am trying to compile Xash3D on GuixSD v1.0.0 and gcc 8.3.0.
As is shown below, ld (GNU Linker) is giving me errors, that ctr1.o and ctri.o are missing. These files exist elsewhere under multiple ...
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Where is Icecat's plugins directory on GuixSD?
I want to try to add libflashplayer.so to Icecat. As it was on other distributions needs to add this file to plugins directory. But on GuixSD I have lot of them and nothing works!
So there each user ...
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mkfs.vfat not found on GuixSD
Troubles formatting usb-flash under GuixSD, cause it cannot find mkfs.vfat.
I've installed dosfstools but util-linux installation shows some another stuff.
# guix package -i dosfstools
The following ...
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Installing packages on Guix: How to specify a specific platform/system?
On Guix, I can install the hello package like this:
$ guix package -i hello
I can see that this package is available in different architectures:
$ guix package --show=hello
[...]
systems: x86_64-...
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How can I install a rpm to Guix?
I have an rpm package prebuilt by a third party and have to install it into my Guix server machine. So how can I install an rpm package into a Guix machine?
Thanks.
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Can Guix packages be delivered to other distros?
Flatpak and snapd packages are available on other distributions because their respective package managers being built for installation on multiple distros [1][2]. Is this also true for the Guix ...
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Installing Nix or Guix without root permissions?
This answer to the question Non-Root Package Managers suggests Nix as a solution. However, the installation documentation says:
The script will invoke sudo to create /nix if it doesn’t already
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