Re: Error messages and progress report

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> The command
>    guix-package -i hello
> still produces an error, probably related to making the symlinks
> in my own environment:

Yes.  Currently ‘guix-package’ expects the default profile to be under
/nix/var/nix/profiles/guix, which typically doesn’t exist, hence the
failure.

Be warned that ‘guix-package’ is rough on the edges and needs love
before we can make a first alpha release.  I’ll look into it ASAP.

Anyway, what does work is something like:

  $ guix-package --profile=$HOME/.guix-profile --install=hello

> Do I need to do anything special?

No.

> If yes, it would be good to add a section "installation" to the
> manual. I suppose I also need to add a line to my .bashrc to modify
> $PATH ?

Yes.

Thanks!

Ludo’.