I apologize for the missing link. Here it is: https://github.com/UMCUGenetics/guix-additions/blob/master/doc/Deployment.md#restricted-environment-installation
At this moment, I have been able to get nix to work with the same technique as mentioned in the above mentioned article. However, I really want to use guix if possible. Thanks, Rohit On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: > > rohit yadav <rohitya...@utexas.edu> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to install guix packages to a non-default location to benefit > > from guix on machines with no root privileges. Following the below > > mentioned article, > > Could you point us to article you followed? I couldn’t find it in your > message. > > > I am able to install guix and run guix-daemon configured > > to a non-default location. However, when I trying to install even a basic > > hello package, the guix goes on to install large number of derivations. > And > > fails while trying to pull linux-libre (why is this needed for hello > > package?). > > Derivations are not packages. The derivation for “hello” says that it > needs /gnu/store/…-linux-libre-headers-4.4.18.drv, which in turn says > that it needs the derivation to download the linux-libre tarball. > > (I’m still traveling, so I cannot check the tarballs right now.) > > -- > Ricardo > > GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC > https://elephly.net > >
