Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

2024-10-23 Thread jbranso
October 23, 2024 at 4:05 PM, jbra...@dismail.de mailto:jbra...@dismail.de wrote: > > October 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM, "Felix Lechner" mailto:felix.lech...@lease-up.com?to=%22Felix%20Lechner%22%20%3Cfelix.lechner%40lease-up.com%3E > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Joshua, > > > > On Tue, Oct 15 2024,

Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

2024-10-23 Thread jbranso
October 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM, "Felix Lechner" mailto:felix.lech...@lease-up.com?to=%22Felix%20Lechner%22%20%3Cfelix.lechner%40lease-up.com%3E > wrote: > > Hi Joshua, > > On Tue, Oct 15 2024, Joshua Branson wrote: > > > > > It also only has 2GB of RAM with maybe 20GB hard drive. > > > That's

Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

2024-10-20 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Joshua, On Tue, Oct 15 2024, Joshua Branson wrote: > It also only has 2GB of RAM with maybe 20GB hard drive. That's small. Please consider using a swap partition, if you aren't. > May I ask why apt is SOO much faster? Probably because there are 500 fewer symbolic links. Kind regar

Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

2024-10-15 Thread Joshua Branson
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" writes: > jbra...@dismail.de writes: >> Nope. I'm using 64 bit. :) I did delete old package profiles and >> system configurations followed by a guix gc. >> >> Lots of stuff got deleted. Maybe that'll help. >> > > guix gc “should” not make a difference, except some

Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

2024-10-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
jbra...@dismail.de writes: > Nope. I'm using 64 bit. :) I did delete old package profiles and system > configurations followed by a guix gc. > > Lots of stuff got deleted. Maybe that'll help. > guix gc “should” not make a difference, except sometimes software like Icecat addons do embed stor

Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

2024-10-14 Thread jbranso--- via
Nope.  I'm using 64 bit.  :)  I did delete old package profiles and system configurations followed by a guix gc. Lots of stuff got deleted.   Maybe that'll help. I'll probably end up using my own guide to properly update. https://gnucode.me/guix-deploy-failed-to-update-my-guix-server.html Josh

Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

2024-10-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello Joshua. Joshua Branson writes: > I just tried to run guix system reconfigure bare-bone-sway.scm, and this > is some of the output that I got. It's a little too much to paste. It > seems like it's trying to build from source a ton of rust stuff. I get > the same issue if I try to install sim

Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

2024-10-13 Thread Aleksej via
Hi! The output you provided is not very descriptive, at least for me. For long logs you could use pastebin-like sites(e.g. https://paste.debian.net/ ) Try invoking "guix weather" it could help you identify if the problem is actually missing substitutes (see https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/