-*- mode: org -*-
-[[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/][GNU Guix]] (IPA: /ɡiːks/) is a purely functional package manager, and
-associated free software distribution, for the [[http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html][GNU system]]. In addition
+[[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/][GNU Guix]] (IPA: /ɡiːks/) is a purely functional package manager, and
+associated free software distribution, for the [[https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html][GNU system]]. In addition
to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional
upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user
profiles, and garbage collection.
-It provides [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/][Guile]] Scheme APIs, including a high-level embedded
+It provides [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/][Guile]] Scheme APIs, including a high-level embedded
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.
-Guix is based on the [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]] package manager.
+Guix is based on the [[https://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]] package manager.
* Requirements
GNU Guix currently depends on the following packages:
- - [[http://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.0.x]], version 2.0.5 or later
- - [[http://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]]
+ - [[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://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
Unless `--disable-daemon' was passed, the following packages are needed:
- - [[http://sqlite.org/][SQLite 3]]
- - [[http://www.bzip.org][libbz2]]
- - [[http://gcc.gnu.org][GCC's g++]]
+ - [[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:
- - [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
+ - [[https://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
* Installation
See the manual for the installation instructions, either by running
- info -f doc/guix.info "(guix) Installation"
+ info -f doc/guix.info "Installation"
-or by checking the [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installation][web copy of the manual]].
+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 ‘HACKING’
-file.
+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:
- - Install the dependencies (see 'Requirements' above) and build tools using
- Guix:
+ - Start a shell with the development environment for Guix:
- guix package --install={autoconf,automake,bzip2,gcc-toolchain,gettext,guile,libgcrypt,pkg-config,sqlite}
+ guix environment guix
- - set the environment variables that Guix recommends you to set during the
- package installation process:
- ACLOCAL_PATH, CPATH, LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+ - 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!).
- - set the PATH environment variable to refer to the profile:
- PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$PATH
-
- - re-run the configure script passing it the option
- `--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/'
-
- - run "make" and "make install"
+ - Run "make", "make check", and "make install".
* How It Works
Guix does the high-level preparation of a /derivation/. A derivation is
the promise of a build; it is stored as a text file under
-=/nix/store/xxx.drv=. The (guix derivations) module provides the
+=/gnu/store/xxx.drv=. The (guix derivations) module provides the
`derivation' primitive, as well as higher-level wrappers such as
`build-expression->derivation'.
* Guix & Nix
-GNU Guix is based on [[http://nixos.org/nix/][the Nix package manager]]. It implements the same
+GNU Guix is based on [[https://nixos.org/nix/][the Nix package manager]]. It implements the same
package deployment paradigm, and in fact it reuses some of its code.
Yet, different engineering decisions were made for Guix, as described
below.
by the daemon to perform the build. Thus, Guix derivations can use
derivations produced by Nix (and vice versa).
-With Nix and the [[http://nixos.org/nixpkgs][Nixpkgs]] distribution, package composition happens at
+With Nix and the [[https://nixos.org/nixpkgs][Nixpkgs]] distribution, package composition happens at
the Nix language level, but builders are usually written in Bash.
Conversely, Guix encourages the use of Scheme for both package
composition and builders. Likewise, the core functionality of Nix is
* Related software
- - [[http://nixos.org][Nix, Nixpkgs, and NixOS]], functional package manager and associated
+ - [[https://nixos.org][Nix, Nixpkgs, and NixOS]], functional package manager and associated
software distribution, are the inspiration of Guix
- - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/][GNU Stow]] builds around the idea of one directory per prefix, and a
+ - [[https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/][GNU Stow]] builds around the idea of one directory per prefix, and a
symlink tree to create user environments
- - [[http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~arnej/store/storedoc_6.html][STORE]] shares the same idea
+ - [[https://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~arnej/store/storedoc_6.html][STORE]] shares the same idea
- [[https://live.gnome.org/OSTree/][GNOME's OSTree]] allows bootable system images to be built from a
specified set of packages
- - The [[http://www.gnu.org/s/gsrc/][GNU Source Release Collection]] (GSRC) is a user-land software
+ - The [[https://www.gnu.org/s/gsrc/][GNU Source Release Collection]] (GSRC) is a user-land software
distribution; unlike Guix, it relies on core tools available on the
host system
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