Trying out Guix for the first time! Waiting for packages to download.
I’m a long time Arch user. Any tips?!
I’ve heard there aren’t as many packages for Guix as other distros, but I was thinking Flatpak and distrobox will help bridge the gap for me.
Trying out Guix for the first time! Waiting for packages to download.
I’m a long time Arch user. Any tips?!
I’ve heard there aren’t as many packages for Guix as other distros, but I was thinking Flatpak and distrobox will help bridge the gap for me.
I use nix for any packages I can’t get from guix repos. So that’s an option too.
Could you share how you do that? It didn’t work last time I tried it (using Nix on top of Guix).
to install nix succesfully on my laptop I had to do the following steps:
guix install nix
nix-channel --list
if nixpkgs is not in channel then add
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
sudo nix-channel --update --verbose
now change the group and ower of /nix
cd /nix/
sudo chown -R {your user name} ./var
sudo chown -R {your user name} ./store
sudo chgrp -R users ./var
sudo chgrp -R users ./store
now update the channels
nix-channel --update --verbose
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then install say firefox
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.firefox
Let me check my notes ths weekend and get back to you.
You have to setup a Nix service and do some symlink-ing
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Services.html