GNU Guix currently depends on the following packages:
- - [[http://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.0.x]]
+ - [[http://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.0.x]], version 2.0.5 or later
- [[http://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]]
Unless `--disable-daemon' was passed, the following packages are needed:
- [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
-Optionally, packages from Nixpkgs may be transparently reused from Guix.
-For this to work, you need to have a checkout of the Nixpkgs repository;
-the `--with-nixpkgs' option allows you to let `configure' know where the
-Nixpkgs checkout is.
+* Installation
- - [[http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/][Nixpkgs]]
+See the manual for the installation instructions, either by running
-When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are also
-required:
+ info -f doc/guix.info "(guix) Installation"
- - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/][GNU Autoconf]]
- - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
- - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
+or by checking the [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installation][web copy of the manual]].
-The "autoreconf -vi" command can be used to generate the build system
-infrastructure; it reports an error if an inappropriate version of the
-above packages is being used.
+For information on installation from a Git checkout, please see the ‘HACKING’
+file.
+
+* 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:
+
+ guix package --install={autoconf,automake,bzip2,gcc,binutils,ld-wrapper,glibc,gettext,guile,libgcrypt,pkg-config,sqlite}
+
+ - set the environment variables that Guix recommends you to set during the
+ package installation process:
+ ACLOCAL_PATH, CPATH, LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+
+ - 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"
* How It Works
`derivation' primitive, as well as higher-level wrappers such as
`build-expression->derivation'.
-Guix does remote procedure calls (RPCs) to the Nix daemon (the
-=nix-worker --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.
+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
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