Hi Marius et al., Thanks for your help. That is clearer now. In fact that is what I did, ran 'guix pull' as user and the latest version of guix is installed in ~/.config/guix/current.
My problem now is that I can run guix from there if I use the full path name: $ ~/.config/guix/current/bin/guix --help But if I just run: $ guix --help it doesn't recognise the command. Normally this would just be because I have not added that directory to PATH as you say. However here is the problem. I am using eshell in emacs. I have tried the following: $ (setenv "PATH" (concat "/home/rlemmon/.config/guix/current/bin:" (getenv "PATH"))) $ addpath /home/rlemmon/.config/guix/current/bin But still the same problem. I understand this is now an eshell problem rather than a guix one. But if anyone has encountered this before ... ? Its a frustrating problem ! Thanks Roy. On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:21 AM Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> wrote: > Roy Lemmon <r...@roylemmon.com> writes: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have followed the instructions in that link and successfully installed > > the build users and guix daemon on my nixos system. As root, I can run > > > > guix package -i hello > > > > and the hello package is installed and I can run it. > > > > However I am having trouble setting up the environment for running guix > as > > a user (I am on my laptop, so there is only one user). guix is of course > > not recognised as a command when I am the user. I can run it as > > /usr/local/bin/guix so that is ok and I could put that in my PATH. But is > > that all I need to do ? I am not sure where the guix packages are > installed > > as a user rather than root. > > I haven't read the linked blog post, but I think the next step is to use > the Guix in /usr/local/bin to run 'guix pull' as your user. That will > install the latest version of Guix in ~/.config/guix/current. > > Afterwards, make sure ~/.config/guix/current/bin comes first in PATH, > then you should be able to use Guix normally. > -- ******************************** Roy Lemmon STFC Daresbury Laboratory United Kingdom ********************************
