* Requirements
-GNU Guix currently depends on the following packages:
+If you are building Guix from source, please see the manual for build
+instructions and requirements, either by running:
- - [[https://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.2.x]]
- - [[https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-gcrypt][Guile-Gcrypt]] 0.1.0 or later
- - [[https://www.gnu.org/software/make/][GNU Make]]
- - [[https://www.gnutls.org][GnuTLS]] compiled with guile support enabled
- - [[https://notabug.org/guile-sqlite3/guile-sqlite3][Guile-SQLite3]], version 0.1.0 or later
- - [[https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git][Guile-Git]]
- - [[http://www.zlib.net/][zlib]]
- - [[https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-json/][Guile-JSON]]
+ info -f doc/guix.info "Requirements"
-Unless `--disable-daemon' was passed, the following packages are needed:
-
- - [[https://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]]
- - [[https://sqlite.org/][SQLite 3]]
- - [[https://gcc.gnu.org][GCC's g++]]
- - optionally [[http://www.bzip.org][libbz2]]
-
-When `--disable-daemon' was passed, you instead need the following:
-
- - [[https://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
+or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Requirements.html][web copy of the manual]].
* Installation
info -f doc/guix.info "Installation"
-or by checking the [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installation][web copy of the manual]].
+or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html][web copy of the manual]].
For information on installation from a Git checkout, please see the section
"Building from Git" in the manual.
- Re-run the 'configure' script passing it the option
'--localstatedir=/somewhere', where '/somewhere' is the 'localstatedir'
value of the currently installed Guix (failing to do that would lead the
- new Guix to consider the store to be empty!).
+ new Guix to consider the store to be empty!). We recommend to use the
+ value '/var'.
- Run "make", "make check", and "make install".