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://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.0.x]], version 2.0.7 or later
- [[http://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]]
+ - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/make/][GNU Make]]
- optionally [[http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-json/][Guile-JSON]], for the 'guix import pypi' command
- optionally [[http://www.gnutls.org][GnuTLS]] compiled with guile support enabled, for HTTPS support
in the 'guix download' command. Note that 'guix import pypi' requires
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]].
-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
-
- - 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
+ guix environment guix
- Re-run the 'configure' script passing it the option
- '--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/', as well as
'--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!).