Using distrobox/apx on Guix

[Gustavo Diaz]

Just for the record and I hope this helps someone.






sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/apx
sudo cp config.json /usr/share/apx/.
sudo mkdir -p /etc/containers
sudo cp policy.json /etc/containers/.
sudo cp subuid /etc/.
sudo cp subgid /etc/.
podman system reset
podman system migrate
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-23.05 nixpkgs
sudo herd restart nix-daemon
nix-channel --update
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.distrobox nixpkgs.apx
apx init --aur





Good luck!

I'm able to use distrobox/apx in Guix. I shared 4 files here that are required for the following script. You will require Podman as a system package (but I think adapting the script for Docker may be possible) and Nix as system service-type installed. Please, take in count that inside the files attached here you may need to change my user gus to yours in your computer. And of course, even entering an apx container will break some executables in the host as well as in the guest and for that Guix Home is going to be required.

config.json
Description: application/json

policy.json
Description: application/json

gus:100000:65536

gus:100000:65536