Hi, On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 08:25:05 +0100 (CET) musics--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the best way to install a package in Guix System? For installation
> (network-manager-openvpn), I put "guix install network-manager-openvpn" then
> "guix pull" and then "sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm" to
> complete the installation, but the package Not installed!
That is the correct way to install a package into your default user profile.
If you want to install a system service, however, that needs to be declared in
/etc/config.scm instead.
In this case, the operating-system's network-manager-service-type has a
<network-manager-configuration> record containing a field VPN-PLUGINS which
should list the packages you want as VPN plugins. The default is the empty
list.
If your "services" field in operating-system in /etc/config.scm has
%desktop-services (which is likely), then you need to replace the
text %desktop-services by
(modify-services %desktop-services
(network-manager-type config =>
(network-manager-configuration
(inherit config)
(vpn-plugins
(list network-manager-openvpn)))))
after you added
(use-package-modules gnome)
at the top of /etc/config.scm .
After that, invoke
sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
.
I checked and saw that this is documented in our info manual.
However, long term it would be better if the system installer or a system
configurer could do that via a text or graphical user interface.
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