Re: Xdm trisquel login fails after installing gajim on a fresh guix install (works after rolling back)

Hi there, Em 02/06/2021 05:16, David Lecompte escreveu: > One small remark though: at various times, there are messages > recommending to set PATH, GUIX_PATH or GUIX_LOCPATH but these variables > are actually set automatically as part of the installation process, so > these messages are a bit

Re: Is there something similar to nix overlays in guix?

Em 05/03/2021 16:20, Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira escreveu: > You don't want to be a slave to upstream developers' decisions and > want to apply out-of-tree patches that automatically propagate to the > rest of the packages ecosystem. I don't know the specifics of the non-free software Nix, but

Re: flatpak applications in the gnome applications menu (XDG_DATA_DIRS)

Em 07/02/2021 15:59, Christophe Pisteur escreveu: > I installed Element (1) by flatpak, but applications installed by First question is: why is Flatpak being distributed by Guix without any patch to conform to GNU FSDG? Perhaps this is another instance of bug #45450 ([1]). Also, unfortunately

Re: rust: where is cargo?

Em 26/12/2020 12:02, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice escreveu: >> I know that guix approach is to replace package managers > > I don't think that's true. Also see https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=45450 . -- * Ativista do software livre * https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno

Re: rust: where is cargo?

Em 26/12/2020 12:02, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice escreveu: >> I know that guix approach is to replace package managers > > I don't think that's true. It's half true, valid to the extent that, contrary to cargo's default repository, Guix's default follows the GNU FSDG, which also requires that every

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

Em 04/12/2020 09:34, Sébastien Lerique escreveu: > On a side-note, the same Davis also develops RCU > , which I would love to manage to package > for Guix, but my first attempts have led into deeper waters than I could > solve, fixing problems with

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

Em 03/12/2020 05:58, Pierre Neidhardt escreveu: > I'm looking for an open ebook reader, at least something that runs free > software. Perhaps this question should be directed to the team inside FSF responsible for doing hardware evaluation, namely, Respects Your Freedom. -- * Ativista do

Re: Zoom

Em 14/11/2020 06:46, Pierre Neidhardt escreveu: > Turns out IceCat has no trouble with WebRTC, it's only the Jitsi rejects > the user-agent! :p > > There is a popular "user agent switcher" extension: install it, set the > user agent to the latest Firefox and you'll be good to go! Please fill a

Re: Zoom

Em 13/11/2020 15:15, Roy Lemmon escreveu: > Can anyone give me hints on getting Zoom installed with sound ? Unless I'm mistaken, this is related to the software described in [1], right? If that is the case, then the Guix community won't be able to officially help in this matter. Computers are

Re: Vanilla Firefox recipe?

I came late to this issue, but I think this should have been posted on development mailing list. It's not good if we use the general help list to foster non-free software like Firefox or those which are third-party package managers with no default repository explicitly commited to following the

Why did those credit managers start to burn my phone after I visited bank?

One thing that might help is switching to free/libre system distributions for phones[1], there is Replicant in that list currently. There are somethings that it doesn't protect from, but for that you should ask them. Besides, install GNU Icecat to have various other security and software freedom

Re: Way to synchronize files like Dropbox

Syncthing is good too. I also use rsync, SFTP, or torrents with no trackers/publishers. The last one needs an unchanged copy of the files being synchronized. SFTP will work friendlier if the file broeser/explorer integrates with a copy of GVFS which has SSH SFTP enabled. Em 16 de abril de 2019

Re: Best practices for Guix environment variables on foreign distro

> When I arrive home (I am at work) I will look at the suggestions in Have you succeeded? > Thank you in advance. You're welcome! :D

Re: A few questions about packages

> Need wiki, not only Manual! :) Awesome idea! Although I have been experiencing some bad moments with wikis nowadays, specially since I don't have stable connection to the Internet, that said, I must note that: manual is like a wiki, with added benefit that: a) manual is readable offline, while

Re: Best practices for Guix environment variables on foreign distro

I don't know if this is recommended, but I set all my variables inside "${HOME}/.profile". Morever, the first thing I do in "${HOME}/.profile" is to source my user's Guix profile --- `source "${GUIX_PROFILE}/etc/profile"'. The caveat is that every time GNU Guix changes my profile generation, I

Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)

> Is it possible to re-enable the feature? > If not, are there other ways around the issue? I want to make it clear that the solution seems to be for you to acquire a copy of the GNU Linux-libre scripts' source code, modify then so that they don't block that specific non-free part, and then have

Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)

> As far as I understand, linux-libre turns off the ability to load > non-free firmware. Why is it so? It's a bug in the Linux kernel itself, caused by how it actually looks and loads stuff. See the reply given by Alexandre Oliva ([1]). [1]

Re: problem with Icecat in GuixSD 0.14.0

I see... I hope someone can send a detailed report to the original projects so as to help them fix it. ;) 2017-12-21T13:27:02+0100 Martin Castillo wrote: > I wasn't asking for help. I just wanted to say that it may be a problem > outside of guix.

Re: Kodi crashed

A bug was reported in bug-guix, see bug #29302 in . 2017-11-14T18:49:36-0600 Caleb Herbert wrote: > I installed Kodi on a foreign distro and it crashed. > > At 4:13 PM CDT, 11/14/17, Ludovic Cortes said

Re: problem with Icecat in GuixSD 0.14.0

Perhaps you should tell the developers of GNU IceCat (if you're using GNU IceCat) or GNU LibreJS (if you're using GNU LibreJS in a browser other than GNU IceCat). I don't know if help-guix mailing list will be able to answer as precisely as the original projects. 2017-12-14T00:06:56+0100 Martin

Re: multiple issues with Epiphany in GuixSD 0.14.0

My message applies to GNU Guix only (the packaage manager which can be installed in any distro), not the GuixSD (system distribution). Please, those who know how XDG specifications should be dealt with by/in GuixSD, please reply. With all that in mind, here follows my message: I don't use

Re: retroarch on Trisquel

Continuing on this issue, I tried some ROMs by doing what is described in [1]: Load Core -> Download Core... -> mupen64plus_libretro.so.zip Load Core -> mupen64plus_libretro.so Online Updater -> Core Updater -> mupen64plus_libretro.so.zip Load Content -> /path/to/Z64/files And I can at least see

Re: error running emacs installed with guix

An interesting update: If you try to make sure that Emacs is rebult, even using the same/current package definition, then the result works as expected. In my case, I made a local package definition for Emacs, and changed the phases or snippet enough to modify the source files a little, like so:

Re: error running emacs installed with guix

t;https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-11/msg00313.html>. 2017-11-13T12:44:59-0200 Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > If you don't mind, I took the liberty to also try following your > suggestion. > > Just to clarify: I'm currently using Emacs 25.3 from an old `guix pull'

Re: Upgrading an old GuixSD installation.

Also, I don't know if this helps, but some time ago I found out that root user's profile doesn't need to have guile-git installed. While the normal users have to. nee writes: > Hello, I have an old guixsd installation that I haven't upgraded for a > few months. > When I run guix

Re: error running emacs installed with guix

Indeed, I experienced the same issues when I followed his instructions literally. This happens because, apparently, the system distribution he's currently using has `ulimit -c unlimited' already run for his current shell and "/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" with the phrase/word "core" inside. You

Re: error running emacs installed with guix

Indeed, I also experienced this issue... Even starting Emacs with `-Q' option doesn't help. Mason Hock writes: > I have installed emacs with Guix. When I try to run it I get > > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module

Re: Application Setup on Trisquel

side $XDG_DATA_DIRS --- because the Xsession.d scripts that set the foreign distro's value for $XDG_DATA_DIRS are run *after* the environment/shell's profile is read and as far as I can tell, before the user logs in the desktop environemnt. Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adf...@hyperbola.info&

Re: Application Setup on Trisquel

I might have some information that might help understand how ${XDG_DATA_DIRS} interferes in case of GNU Guix in foreign distros. Reading the XDG Base Directory Specification ([1]): --8<---cut here---start->8--- [...] * Basics The XDG Base Directory

Re: Application Setup on Trisquel

For the case of themes not matching and buttoms not showing up, perhaps one can try the suggestion I made to that same thread ([1]). [1] . Caleb Herbert writes: > I have a better way. This did

Re: Should I upgrade root user's guix too?

I think root profile doesn't have 0 (zero) packages installed. It has guix. ;) As a personal preference, I always do: # guix pull && guix package -u ... as root, and then: $ guix pull && guix package -u ... as normal user Chris Marusich writes: > > I see. I

Re: various packaging issues

Yes, we do know who he is! :) Still, that issue is somewhat not clear to me, neither is the submission which started it all back in 2002. -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é

Re: developing software with guix environment

Thank you very much for the information. :)

Re: various packaging issues

Regarding the meaning of the license list: I see what you mean now. Thanks. :) About own opinions and blocked contributions: Since you commented on a contribution to a GNU project, I wonder if the issue was taken to the FSF's Licensing and Compliance Lab and also to copyright-related lawyers?

Re: various packaging issues

About the license field notation, I don't know if this is indeed what the GNU Guix project interpretes about it, but for me I always see a list of licenses as being connected with a series of "or"'s. One thing to note however, and I often find it simpler to do, is that: at least in *my* opinion,

Re: Help neeeded to package guile-wiredtiger and microkanren

Oh, I see. Thanks for the information, I first thought this was overlooked. :)

Re: Help neeeded to package guile-wiredtiger and microkanren

Hi Amirouche! :) What is the status of this? - Was there any previous attempt? - What are the findings so far? - Does it need a system service to be running? - Since your last message, is there someone working on this now? -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e

Re: GuixSD in virtualbox

Which break down is related to GuixSD and Python? Please tell us so that we can help out. -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre, por isso não uso. Iguais a ele prefiro GNU

Re: GuixSD in virtualbox

You might want to make sure that the version of VirtualBox that you have is fully free/libre though. The current versions of it, as far as I know, aren't, so I think Guix should avoid recommending it. -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice

The documentation section (the reference I gave earliear), not the wiki page (the reference you just gave), tells the solution for the problem described in the wiki page. The wiki page also mentions the solution but it's implicit. That wiki page tells you that you have to provide options that

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice

I don't know if this is right, but at least according to [[https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Network-options]], I see no way to tell `-net default` to QEMU.

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is.

I don't know what is the issue exactly, but from the QEMU documentation I can see that, in order for it to grab or release mouse and keyboard, one has to press Ctrl + Alt. Lastly, strangely enough, I as a non-tech user understand QEMU as a VM. But of course, no non-tech user's opinion replaces

Re: pgmodeler

NOTE I'm not a developer, but I just happen to search for the issue some more and happened to find a similar issue. In the issue, the problem is "libpq", not "libpq" --- but I do know that it was probably a typo ---, furthermore, there is a similar issue that should provide us with some hints:

Re: A short story about containers

Indeed... That story is a good one. :) -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre, por isso não uso. Iguais a ele prefiro GNU Ring, ou Tox. Quer outras formas de contato?

Re: libxsl reprise

You're welcome! :) I'm glad it worked well.

Re: libxsl reprise

Try: (chdir "libxsl") The reason for this suggestion is that "source" is already traversed/changed-to after "unpack" phase. Because Guix already tries to change to first directory it finds in the source. If it still doesn't work, revert the one I just recommended, and add: ... before the

Re: artanis ?

I also got the same problem, but I don't know how to solve it yet. The following issues seem to be related: - [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/artanis/2016-05/msg1.html]] - [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-02/msg00025.html]] However, I don't exactly know how to fix