Hello Guix users! I sort of messed up my Guix setup as follows:
I installed Guix using the binary installer script. The installer asked me, whether I wanted to allow prebuilt packages and I thought: "Nah, let it compile packages." Not considering how long that would take initially and/or with any updates for packages. Then I started installing the locales as suggested, when you do not have them yet, which I think is always the case on a fresh Guix installation. So I started installing those with the command provided by the Guix installer. I think it spent already 30min or so compiling stuff, when I canceled it. Then I started looking for a way to change the prebuilt thingy setting, as I realized what I had done. I found no way to change the setting and neither did any web search yield anything helpful. So I went ahead and thought "Isn't it like a thing contained in one directory? I should be able to simply delete Guix using `rm -rf` …". I deleted `/gnu` and a few other locations. Then I tried to install Guix again, but it refused to "overwrite" an existing installation. So there must have been traces of the previous installation left somewhere. I searched more about uninstalling Guix and found very little. At some point I found the following Arch Linux wiki link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Guix I removed all the guixbuilders and the group guixbuild. Then I removed the other paths mentioned in the wiki article. Finally Guix installer did not find any previous installation any longer and installed, seemingly without problems. But then I started to see the actual problem. When I tried installing the locales following the installation of Guix an error with the guix daemon socket came up: ===== guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales guile: warning: failed to install locale hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines: guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info. guix package: error: failed to connect to `/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory ===== So now my question is: How can I repair my Guix, its socket, or better yet: Completely remove and reinstall it? Thanks for any help! Hans
