So it finally happened after a few days of trying and the excellent help here. Thanks to all.
I have a VirtualBox VM running on Mac OSX High Sierra. Took a few days to compile everything from sources using --substitute-urls="https://berlin.guixsd.org”. Don’t do this unless you are very patient. There were a few problems along the way. I think my initial problem was I was using the hydra site initially just before it went down. Somewhere along the way I did a guix pull, etc and I couldn’t install guile-2.2.3 and guile-2.2.4. So I decided to abort the whole thing and setup a new VM. While installing the new VM, I found some issues with the install scripts: bzip2 —> The correct fix from Leo was to download the file as follows—> guix download https://web.archive.org/web/20180624184835/http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz texlive-20170524 —> From Mark, I downloaded from —> ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/2017/texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz nss-3.36.1 —> So I received an answer on this, but no definitive solution. Sorry, I had to edit the builder script and remove the tests to get this to install. I guess I will install this properly later when it gets fixed. guix-artwork-6998d30 —> So I have no idea how to download this file. Instead, I (sorry Mark) edit the rsgj5syf4azvg4y80gqbr94gr4i9226y-guix-artwork-6998d30-checkout.drv file and changed it to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix/guix-artwork.git I know your not supposed to edit these, but had I not, I would be waiting for a while. When these are fixed, I will install them properly. I guess I was the guinea pig to show that there are some issues with the install that need to be addressed. Thanks everyone. Now I can play with the fresh OS. Brian. :)
