Hi Tatiana, Tatiana Sholokhova <tanja201...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello! My name is Tatiana. > > I have installed guix for the first time and noticed that the installation > script at > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/etc/guix-install.sh did not > work for me. So, I had to make some modifications. > > There was a problem with the path to root user home directory. Below I > provide diff output for original script and my modified script. Thank you for working on this! > 266c266,267 > < ln -sf /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile > /root/.guix-profile > --- >> ln -sf /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile \ >> ~root/.guix-profile > 268c269 > < GUIX_PROFILE="/root/.guix-profile" > --- >> GUIX_PROFILE="${HOME}/.guix-profile" > > These changes allowed me to install guix via the script. As I said to Chris (Cc'ed), I don't think it's a good idea to install Guix in root's home directory. Instead, we should probably honor the USER and HOME environment variables, so that the command can be run as a non-root user (with sudo) in a consistent way. What do you think? You can follow the discussion there: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30728. Every email sent to 30...@debbugs.gnu.org will appear there. Clément
