Re: Package Install Question for New User

2018-11-05 Thread Björn Höfling
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:33:22 -0700 Brian Woodcox wrote: > All of a sudden the system is downloading and compiling a pile of > packages that were already installed as root. > > Is there a way to have guix use the packages that were installed in > the root account instead of downloading and rebuild

Re: Package Install Question for New User

2018-11-05 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 05/11/2018 17.33, Brian Woodcox wrote: I then trying to install a package from the terminal. How about icecat. So I issue the command to install that. All of a sudden the system is downloading and compiling a pile of packages that were already installed as root. There is a single system

Package Install Question for New User

2018-11-05 Thread Brian Woodcox
So I now have GuixSD installed and operational. Well sort of, I would like to install some packages. I am seeing a lot of information on the web (including videos) and old information about installing packages and the .guix-profile. Let’s say I’m logged in as user noobie. I then trying to ins