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 the guix package manager safely be utilized without sudo?
I am confused about how to utilize Guix on my Debian machine. Should I run sudo guix install <package> or simply guix install <package>? If the package is more of a system package (i.e. a ...
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How to set up a development environment for Elixir on Guix?
I want to try out Elixir so I set out to install it using Guix. My first attempt to install an isolated environment was to use guix shell --network --container elixir but unfortunately the elixir ...
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How to enable LUKS disk decryption on a GNU Guix System with a key file stored on a USB drive
I followed the advice from Guix: How to set one (file-system) as a dependency of another? Or mount one device before device mapping?, but it's halfway working for me. In my case, I still have to type ...
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Guix patching is different than doing it manually
I'm trying to build wine-staging from a custom Guix package definition (wine-10.scm) that I've created, based on the official Guix package definitions for Wine. My goal is to build a newer version of ...
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Guix: How to set one (file-system) as a dependency of another? Or mount one device before device mapping?
Say I have a LUKS partition which encrypts the root file system and whose key resides in another file system. (mapped-devices (list (mapped-device (type (luks-device-mapping-with-options #:...
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Installed font does not appear in xfontsel on a Guix System
After installing font-terminus on my Guix System the font appears in the output of fc-list ... /home/rovanion/.guix-profile/share/fonts/terminus/ter-x12n.pcf.gz: Terminus:style=Regular ... /run/...
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How to use kexec on Guix? Getting a blank screen
I'm trying to use kexec on Guix, which I think should be kexec -l /run/current-system/kernel/bzImage --append="$(cat /proc/cmdline)" --initrd=/run/current-system/initrd kexec -e However, ...
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Guix: How to add an environment variable in a guix.scm file for use with guix shell? Or is it not possible?
guix shell allows users to create a shell and control what resources are available. How can I use the guix.scm file to specify an environment variable in this shell environment? In this specific ...
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I just installed guix on a virtual machine.. how can I run sshd?
I am a first time guix user and need assistance doing this basic thing. I did guix pull and guix install openssh but the sshd command is not there. After typing guix pull and guix install openssh, I ...
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Are all packages necessarily reproducible on GUIX?
By default, what will happen if I try to install a package with GUIX and it's not bit-for-bit reproducible? I'm very concerned about the state of package managers in 2024 (and the risks of supply ...
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Problems with session lock
I am currently trying to get the session lock running on my DELL XPS 15. Everytime I suspend the system it fails and there is an error message telling me that all session lock tools failed. When ...
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How to run a one-off command at a specified future time in Guix?
I want to run a shell command once at a specific time in the future on Guix. My idea was to use the at command, but that seems to not be available on Guix. The imperative nature of my desire goes ...
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How to get Guix perfect setup to work
The official Guix documentation describes The Perfect Setup for hacking on Guix. I have followed this description and set up everything like described, but still Geiser does not work fully. I thought ...
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How does GNU Guix's resource usage compare to lightweight linux distros (Puppy, AntiX, Q4OS, Linux Lite, Mabox, and Arch) when using EXWM?
I am looking for a lightweight Linux distribution for development purposes on older hardware and considering GNU Guix (yes, I like lisp, functional programming, and reproducibility :D). My ...
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How to completely uninstall Guix in Debian
I installed Guix from the Debian main repository (sudo apt-get install guix). I want to uninstall it, so I ran sudo apt-get purge guix and sudo apt-get autoremove. However, it seems that Guix is still ...
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