Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> writes: > Hello, > > right now on the GuixSD from the website I have about 12 copies of > icecat installed in /gnu/store but I can start none of them by typing > > $ icecat > > Why not?
In Unix-like systems, an executable needs to be in any of the colon-separated directories in the PATH environment variable, otherwise it won't appear as a shell command. (E.g. a typical value for PATH might be "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin".) In Guix, we typically install a package into our "profile" by running "guix package -i the-package", and add the 'bin' and 'sbin' sub-directories in the profile to PATH. A user's profile is typically under: /var/guix/profiles/per-user/<username> so you can add the following lines to your ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile file: export PATH=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/<username>/sbin:$PATH export PATH=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/<username>/bin:$PATH By the way, every time you use a "guix package" command to edit your profile, a new "generation" of your profile is created, and you can roll-back to previous generations when you want, for example in case updated packages in the new generation happen to have a bug. The 12 copies of IceCat in your /gnu/store might belong to old generations of your profile, which you can delete with the "guix package -d" command (read the documentation please!), and then run the garbage collector "guix gc" to delete the stale IceCat copies in the store. > Also, it isn't in Xfce4's Application Finder either (while for example > HexChat is). I don't know anything about Xfce, but possibly the problem will be solved when you install IceCat into your profile with "guix package -i". Hope that helps, Taylan
