domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to describe how packages are to be
built and composed.
-A user-land free software distribution for GNU/Linux comes as part of
-Guix.
+GNU Guix can be used on top of an already-installed GNU/Linux distribution, or
+it can be used standalone (we call that “Guix System”).
Guix is based on the [[https://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]] package manager.
* 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 or 2.0.x]], version 2.0.13 or later
- - [[https://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]]
- - [[https://www.gnu.org/software/make/][GNU Make]]
- - [[https://www.gnutls.org][GnuTLS]] compiled with guile support enabled
- - [[https://notabug.org/civodul/guile-sqlite3][Guile-SQLite3]], version 0.1.0 or later
- - [[https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git][Guile-Git]]
- - [[http://www.zlib.net/][zlib]]
- - optionally [[https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-json/][Guile-JSON]], for the 'guix import pypi' command
+ info -f doc/guix.info "Requirements"
-Unless `--disable-daemon' was passed, the following packages are needed:
-
- - [[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]].
-
-For information on installation from a Git checkout, please see the section
-"Building from Git" in the manual.
-
-* Installing Guix from Guix
-
-You can re-build and re-install Guix using a system that already runs Guix.
-To do so:
+or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html][web copy of the manual]].
- - Start a shell with the development environment for Guix:
+* Building from Git
- guix environment guix
+For information on building Guix from a Git checkout, please see the relevant
+section in the manual, either by running
- - 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!).
+ info -f doc/guix.info "Building from Git"
- - Run "make", "make check", and "make install".
+or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html][web_copy of the manual]].
* How It Works
`derivation' primitive, as well as higher-level wrappers such as
`build-expression->derivation'.
-Guix does remote procedure calls (RPCs) to the Guix or Nix daemon (the
-=guix-daemon= or =nix-daemon= command), which in turn performs builds
-and accesses to the Nix store on its behalf. The RPCs are implemented
-in the (guix store) module.
-
-* Installing Guix as non-root
-
-The Guix daemon allows software builds to be performed under alternate
-user accounts, which are normally created specifically for this
-purpose. For instance, you may have a pool of accounts in the
-=guixbuild= group, and then you can instruct =guix-daemon= to use them
-like this:
-
- $ guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
-
-However, unless it is run as root, =guix-daemon= cannot switch users.
-In that case, it falls back to using a setuid-root helper program call
-=nix-setuid-helper=. That program is not setuid-root by default when
-you install it; instead you should run a command along these lines
-(assuming Guix is installed under /usr/local):
-
- # chown root.root /usr/local/libexec/nix-setuid-helper
- # chmod 4755 /usr/local/libexec/nix-setuid-helper
+Guix does remote procedure calls (RPCs) to the build daemon (the =guix-daemon=
+command), which in turn performs builds and accesses to the store on its
+behalf. The RPCs are implemented in the (guix store) module.
* Contact
GNU Guix is hosted at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/.
-Please email <bug-guix@gnu.org> for bug reports or questions regarding
-Guix and its distribution; email <gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org> for
-general issues regarding the GNU system.
+Please email <help-guix@gnu.org> for questions and <bug-guix@gnu.org> for bug
+reports; email <gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org> for general issues regarding the
+GNU system.
-Join #guix on irc.freenode.net.
+Join #guix on irc.libera.chat.
* Guix & Nix