Leo Famulari <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 08:16:59PM +0200, Catonano wrote: >> There are only 2 profiles on this machine: mine and root's profile >> >> As for mine, I eliminated ALL previous generations and emacs-cider is not >> installed in the current one >> >> As for root's profile: >> >> $ guix package -p root --list-installed >> >> returns nothing >> >> >> and >> $ guix package -p root --list-generations >> guix package: error: profile 'root' does not exist > > I think the argument to '-p' is the generation of the profile (an > integer). You should try running it as root, since I doubt you can read > root's profiles as an unprivileged user.
No, “--profile” or “-p” expects a *path* to a profile. For root’s profile you would either be root and use the default (no “-p” option), or use “-p /root/.guix-profile” or similar, provided you have read access to this file. ~~ Ricardo
