Online talk (Thursday): Using Mumi for Guix patches by Jgart

2024-08-26 Thread Steve George
Hi all, This Thursday (29th) Jgart is going to give a talk about Mumi, a command line interface that makes interacting debbugs.gnu.org much simpler. The session will be at: 17:00 UTC, 18:00 BST (London), 19:00 CEST (Paris), 13:00 EDT (New York) Jgart says he's going to do a code review dur

Re: run appimage on guix?

2024-08-26 Thread Steve George
Hi, AppImage is a cross-distribution format as far as I know, so there shouldn't be any problems running them on Guix. The QuickStart guide looks pretty straightforward: https://docs.appimage.org/introduction/quickstart.html#ref-quickstart Generally, the most popular cross-distribution format

Re: install downloaded deb package?

2024-08-26 Thread Steve George
Hi, No you can't. Debian packages (.deb files) work with the Debian package manager. Guix is an alternative, it can be used: 1. As a full Linux distribution (so a replacement for all of Debian) 2. As a package manager *on top of* an existing distribution (e.g. Debian) I personally run Guix as

Re: Online talk (Thursday): Using Mumi for Guix patches by Jgart

2024-08-26 Thread Edouard Klein
Hi Steve, Hi list, Will there be a recording available ? I won't be able to make it but I'm very much interested. Thanks, Cheers, Edouard. Steve George writes: > Hi all, > > This Thursday (29th) Jgart is going to give a talk about Mumi, a command line > interface that makes > interacting de

Re: install downloaded deb package?

2024-08-26 Thread Aleksej via
You should probably use distrobox for that, it's available in Guix default channel.

Re: D-Bus service files on foreign distributions

2024-08-26 Thread Nils Landt
> Roman Riabenko via hat am 25.08.2024 13:08 CEST > geschrieben: > > > Hello > > How to expose service files to D-Bus on a foreign distribution? > > I installed gnome-text-editor with guix on a foreign distribution > (PureOS byzantium). It would run from command line, but fail to start > fro

Re: Online talk (Thursday): Using Mumi for Guix patches by Jgart

2024-08-26 Thread Steve George
On 26 Aug, Edouard Klein wrote: > Hi Steve, Hi list, > > Will there be a recording available ? I won't be able to make it but I'm > very much interested. > (...) Yes, we're still trying to figure out the best way to do this, the quality on Jitsi is not that great. But yes there will be a record

Re: Rust development in guix

2024-08-26 Thread woshilapin
Hi Hannes, I've had success setting up, compiling and running a Rust project (a simple main "Hello world" function), dropping in a shell with only these 2 dependencies. ``` guix shell rust rust:cargo ``` Is your program specific in any way? Including external C libraries maybe? Sincerely, -- J