Hi Guix! I tried using the latest tarball to install guix, by modifying the current script. To do that, I downloaded the latest installation script from savannah and modified it a bit:
In guix_get_bin, I removed the tar.xz extension and the download of the signature. I also commented out the verification with gpg. In main, I commented out the call to guix_get_bin_list and replace the call to guix_get_bin with guix_get_bin "https://ci.guix.gnu.org/download/"; "114" "$tmp_path" (114 being obtained by looking at the latest build of the tarball: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/tarball). After these changes, I was able to run: sudo -i $HOME/guix-install.sh which initially asked me to get the key, then managed to download the tarball, but failed like so: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ Press return to continue... Starting installation (Sat Apr 17 08:59:36 AM EDT 2021) [ PASS ] verification of required commands completed [ INFO ] init system is: systemd [ WARN ] We recommend installing and/or starting your distribution 'nscd' service [ WARN ] Please read 'info guix "Application Setup"' about "Name Service Switch" [ INFO ] system is x86_64-linux [ INFO ] Downloading Guix release archive 114 100%[===================>] 85.11M 4.27MB/s in 19s [ PASS ] download completed. [ PASS ] unpacked archive [ INFO ] Installing /var/guix and /gnu... [ INFO ] Linking the root user's profile /home/roptat/guix-install.sh: line 317: /root/.config/guix/current/etc/profile: No such file or directory Indeed, the tarball only has the following in var/guix: /var/guix/ /var/guix/db/ /var/guix/db/db.sqlite /var/guix/gcroots/ /var/guix/gcroots/profiles /var/guix/profiles/ /var/guix/profiles/per-user/ /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/ /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile-1-link whereas the release (1.2.0) tarball contains: /var/guix/ /var/guix/db/ /var/guix/db/db.sqlite /var/guix/gcroots/ /var/guix/gcroots/profiles /var/guix/profiles/ /var/guix/profiles/per-user/ /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/ /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-1-link Note guix-profile <> current-guix The manual still suggests to create a symlink to /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix and source the profile from it.
