Is there a beginner's guide to using Guix with Scheme files?

I recently installed Guix, and I must admit I'm feeling somewhat lost. My goal is to not run `guix package -i` manually, but have a scheme file with my entire system configuration in it, and run `guix package -f /path/to/that/file` to install the programs I want on my computer. I think what I want

Re: Is there a beginner's guide to using Guix with Scheme files?

16 at 9:52 AM, Catonano wrote: > > > 2016-04-17 6:15 GMT+02:00 Zachary Kanfer : > >> I recently installed Guix, and I must admit I'm feeling somewhat lost. My >> goal is to not run `guix package -i` manually, but have a scheme file with >> my entire system configuration in i

Re: Is there a beginner's guide to using Guix with Scheme files?

age-modules` or `packages->manifest`. Is this information I can access in Emacs through geiser? Or perhaps a webpage with more such information? Thanks. On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Zachary Kanfer skribis: > > > I recently installed Guix, and I mus

After installing Java, what should I set JAVA_HOME to?

I've installed the java compiler (see the manifest file at [1] the end of this email). I'm able to compile Java files directly, which is great. But I started the gradle quickstart guide , and I've started running into problems.

Re: After installing Java, what should I set JAVA_HOME to?

ch" wrote: > Hi Zachary, > > Zachary Kanfer writes: > > > But I started the gradle quickstart guide, and I've started running > > into problems. Right now I have $JAVA_HOME set to > > /home/zck/.guix-profile/, but I am suspecting that is not right. When &g

Re: After installing Java, what should I set JAVA_HOME to?

tutorial I find, since the tutorials I'm using are Gradle and Clojure tutorials. I hope to figure this out and report back, but I'm not especially optimistic, because I know that my problems will be entirely fixed with `apt-get install java`, and I have little idea what's really going on.

How do I make a manifest file that installs a specific version of a dependency?

In the thread beginning here (https://lists.gnu.org/ archive/html/help-guix/2016-11/msg0.html), I was given the advice to install icedtea@2.6 and see if that fixes my keystore problem. But I have no idea how to do so with a manifest file. I don't want to run `guix package -i` commands by hand;

Re: How do I make a manifest file that installs a specific version of a dependency?

vic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > Zachary Kanfer skribis: > > > Running `guix package -m` on a file with this line `(list icedtea-2.6 > > "jdk")` gives an error "In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: > > icedtea-2.6". > > > > I g