Maybe I'm being really silly, but don't you just do a guix pull as a root user not as a normal user?
$ su PASSWORD root # guix pull Muto <sh...@muto.ca> writes: > Guix on a foreign machine (Ubuntu) works just fine for every account > except my main user account. If I try running > guix pull > > As that user, I get the error: > > guix pull: error: could not find bootstrap binary 'guile-2.0.9.tar.xz' > for system 'x86_64-linux' > > If there is no easy solution, is there a way to completely remove the > guix profile associated with my user account & add it back in? I could > always re-install my programs. > Thanks in advance.