Re: Prerequesits GuixSD

[Amirouche BOUBEKKI]

Le mardi 19 mai 2015 à 10:55 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit :
> Hi Fabian,
> 
> > But the system build broke.
> 
> What exactly does this mean?
> 
> > I used a Lenovo T60 with just 1GB RAM. What hardware do i need to
> > build a Guix system? I used the very tiny system configuration that i
> > found on the installer USB with slight changes.
> 
> I use the Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) on both a T60 and an X200s.
> I did *not* compile everything from scratch but used binary substitutes
> for the vast majority of packages.

Here on a glublub X60 it installed correctly with substitues. There is
XFCE and WM maker as WM. And it works quiet good as second workstation.
GSD hasn't yet, all the s/spies/daemons that other distros can have ;)

> 
> Unless you *want* to build *everything* from scratch, be sure to enable
> binary substitutes by authorising the build farm hydra.gnu.org with:
> 
>   guix import --authorize < /path/to/hydras.public.key
> 
> > Since i am living in germany i wanted to use de_DE but this was not
> > possible.
> 
> You can most definitely use a different locale, but you will have to
> install the glibc-locales package or else applications won't be able to
> find the appropriate strings.
> 
> ~~ Ricardo
>