Hi Daniel, On October 3, 2025 10:34:29 AM GMT+02:00, "Daniel Karpiński" <[email protected]> wrote: >Good morning. >Last week I installed the GNU Guix System on my 11 old year laptop. It works >fine. Wifi works. > >I create an article in Polish language here >http://donieck67.blogspot.com/2025/09/gnu-guix-system-pierwsza-udana.html. > >Image iso is 3 years old and I have been problem with command guix pull. >Thanks for Guix group on reddit I use Guix pull - - >url=https://codeberg.org/guix/guix.git and this it works properly. > >I m a bit confused that sudo and XLibre are not available in default install. >I don't know how I can enable sudo and Icecat browser for non root user. Can >anyone help me?
Sudo is Included in the default install, both in 1.4.0 and in latest. Nonetheless, don't forget to pull & reconfigure your system to make sure you are up to date. After that you should have /run/privileged/bin/sudo and this should be in your PATH. If something here doesn't seem so, please reply back with what assumption here doesn't hold. As for xlibre, that is indeed not available and there is controversy about it, see <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2025-07/msg00006.html>. I dont really understand what you mean by enabling icecat for regular users, if you are already in X, you should be able to start icecat normally after installing it / using it from a shell `guix shell icecat - icecat`. If that doesn't work, please share the output so that it can be diagnosed what is wrong. Each user install to their own files, everyone is permitted to do it. There is no need for sudo and it would be undesirable to guix install with sudo as root will get the browser, not you. > >Guix is very matured software, but it is created for advanced users. I agree, Guix System has a steep learning curve and is more for niche users that want to get into declaring their system through a programming language. That being said, Guix itself can be quite easy to use, unless you need something that is not already available. But you can get to this situation quite commonly as the community is not so large, compared to more mainstream package managers. Rutherther > >Best regards > >Daniel Karpiński
