Re: attempt to create a profile

Gottfried Sun, 08 Jan 2023 01:22:20 -0800

Hi Simon,

 ...and also at start up that I can choose which profile to open?


What do you mean by “choose”?

I meant when I am starting Guix, I can choose to use MATE desktop or Enlightenment Desktop. If there is also the option to choose a certain profile, in case I have more profils.


When I have choosen MATE desktop,
which profile opens?

I am worried, that, if I create a profile with only one package "musescore" in it,

and if that opens, or after creating that profile,
I can't switch to my main profile.

So before creating a profile with only one package musecore in it

I want to be sure how I can switch to that profile and how I can choose my other, my main profile.



Kind regards

Gottfried



Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:45:25 +0100
From: Simon Tournier <[email protected]>
To: Gottfried <[email protected]>, Csepp <[email protected]>,
        Wojtek Kosior <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: attempt to create a profile
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Hi,

On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 15:09, Gottfried <[email protected]> wrote:

Which commands can I use to enter and close my new profile?


To enter, you just need to ’source path/to/some-profile/etc/profile’.

However, you cannot “deactivacte“; unset the environment variables and
restore the previous ones.  Maybe, the easiest is:

    bash
    source path/to/some-profile/etc/profile
    …do some stuff…
    exit

Instead, you can run

     guix shell -p path/to/some-profile/etc/profile
     …do some stuff…
     exit

which does the same thing as above.

...and also at start up that I can choose which profile to open?


What do you mean by “choose”?

guix package --profile=/home/gfp/projects/musescore-3.6.2.guix-profile

and beforehand I created the directory "projects" and
"Musescore-3.6.2" in the directory "projects"
in my /home/gfp/ directory
(I did that because it said: "
file or directory was not found"

but it didn't work.
"warning: nothing to do" was the answer.

Where was my mistake?


It is missing the option -i (or -m).  For instance,

     guix package -i musescore -p projects/musescore-3.6.2.guix-profile


Cheers,
simon

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