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<amirouche>héllo, it's not clear from the documentation whether I need guix daemon if I install it as a user

<Steap>amirouche: you need to run the daemon; yes

<amirouche>I did install guix, the daemon running, I ran guix pull

<amirouche>which installed some stuff

<amirouche>now I try guix package -i zile

<amirouche>I have this backtrace

<amirouche> http://paste.call-cc.org/paste?id=6fdc9664ba6f81cfc0e32d168502945e1d6c95f9

<Steap>amirouche: what version of Guix and Guile do you use ?

<amirouche>guix: 0.3 guile: 2.0.7

<Steap>ok

<Steap>"sendfile" is only defined in Guix0.8+

<Steap>but Guix should be able to detect that you do not have it

<amirouche>guix 0.8+ ? how can I get to that version ?

<amirouche>the latest release of guix is 0.3 from a few days ago

<Steap>I'm pretty sure that with Guile 2.0.9, it would work (you could compile it yourself), but Guix should work with Guix 2.0.7

<Steap>Could you run (defined? 'sendfile) in guile ?

<amirouche>#f

<amirouche>I will compile guile 2.0.9 then

<Steap>hum

<Steap>weird

<Steap>I mean, it's normal to get #f

<Steap>I havethe same with Guix 2.0.5

<Steap>but it's weird that Guix does not handle that well

<amirouche>Guile 2.0.5

<amirouche>guix should update guile ?

<Steap>you could install guile 2.0.9 using guix,yes

<Steap>I'm afraid you might run into the same issue though

<amirouche>I will install guile without guix

<amirouche>as soon as I install something with guix

<amirouche>I mean imagine it works

<amirouche>how does the systems knows about it ?

<amirouche>isn't there some PATH trickery to be done ?

<Steap>well, if you install Guile 2.0.9 in /home/amirouche/some/directory/bin

<Steap>you should add "export PATH=/home/amirouche/some/directory/bin:$PATH" at the end of your ~/.bashrc

<Steap>and run "source ~/.bashrc"

<Steap>then "which guile" should return "/home/amirouche/some/directory/bin"

<amirouche>I'm talking about guix installed packages not package that I install manually

<Steap>oh

<Steap>they are installed in ~/.guix-profile/bin

<Steap>so you should add taht to $PATH

<Steap>Btw, could you file a bug report ?

<amirouche>here http://debbugs.gnu.org/ ?

<amirouche>also guix installed guile 2.0.9

<amirouche>but is running the local guile

<amirouche>and ~/.guix-profile/bin does not exists

<Steap>don't you have a ~/.guix-profile ?

<amirouche>no

<Steap>are you sure guix did not fail ?

<amirouche>I mean I did configure make make install then guix pull

<amirouche>it failed because it had not the correct rights on /nix/store

<Steap>yeah right

<amirouche>a command to execute to correct the thing was provided

<Steap>ok

<amirouche>I executed it

<amirouche>then tried guic pull again

<Steap>(yep, use debbugs)

<amirouche>then it was saying it's ok

<Steap>(not sure how it works since we've only started to use that a few weeks ago and I was busy with work :/)

<Steap>so, have you tried installing "hello" through Guix ?

<amirouche>not hello just zile

<Steap>ok

<Steap>I think the ~/.guix-profile will be created when guix manages to install its first package

<amirouche>probably

<amirouche>guix installed guile 2.0.9

<amirouche>in /nix/store

<amirouche>but guix script reference /usr/bin/guile which is 2.0.6 on my system

<amirouche>I replace the shebang with /usr/bin/env guile

<amirouche>but still fails with http://paste.call-cc.org/paste?id=0372e8cc7d7e2849d1b57a2926e0b359b072fa05

<Steap>oh yeah, you don't have libgcrypt

<Steap>funny that configure does not tell you anything about this

<amirouche>configure told me about it

<amirouche>and I installed it

<Steap>oh

<Steap>oh, so Guix just can't find it

<amirouche>maybe it's not installed by guix

<amirouche>yes

<Steap>The easy solution would be to install it through Guix too :)

<Steap>It's quite weird that it's not found by Guix

<Steap>It's not easy to install Guix yet, but it's worth the trouble :)

<amirouche>I wanted to use guix to pull quickly dependencies for skribilo

<amirouche>or create them

<amirouche>I used nixos

<amirouche>It's rather powerful system

<Steap>Haven't tried NixOS myself

<amirouche>which distribution you run guix on ?

<Steap>Debian

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