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

2022-05-12 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, 白い熊@相撲道 writes: > On 2022-05-11 14:31, yasu wrote: >> This is also an old topic, but we need lesser-help-guix@... >> The help-guix@... seems so much against even discussion of such >> things... >> So for now (and let me stress, I do not like this situation of self- >> imposed-gagging and

Re: Guix home, guix system, channels, some noob questions

2022-05-12 Thread Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
Thanks Julien, Ok i see, like you say jpoiret also say me that the concept are orthogonal, so if i understand well : - adding emacs as system package, i suppose this is available for all users - adding emacs as home package, i suppose this is available only for me And *guix install

[HELP] Packaging open source NVIDIA kernel driver

2022-05-12 Thread phodina via
Hi, NVIDIA has released open source kernel driver though the firmware for the GPU is still closed source. [1] I'm currently trying to package it but there are 2 issues I ran into. First if I don't override the build phase it fails to find the utils.mk file as it does not run the make command

Re: Error: cannot close compressed log file

2022-05-12 Thread Emmanuel Medernach
Le 10/05/2022 à 19:52, zimoun a écrit : Hi, On Mon, 09 May 2022 at 12:50, Emmanuel Medernach wrote: When trying to install a custom package the build stop after downloading the source code with this error: guix install: error: cannot close compressed log file (gzip error = -1) Well, I

blueman-applet: Failed to apply network settings on XFCE4 login

2022-05-12 Thread 白い熊@相撲道
Hello everyone: I have bluetooth setup on my Guix System and it works. I've added: (gnu packages networking) to (use-modules and: (simple-service 'dbus-extras dbus-root-service-type (list blueman)) in system-config.scm and a Bluetooth applet starts on

Re: Guix home, guix system, channels, some noob questions

2022-05-12 Thread Julien Lepiller
guix install something installs for the current user. Note that, if you do that as root, the package is also only available to root. The only way to install or remove a global package is through guix system and its configuration file. I don't know how guix home interacts with other solutions.

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

2022-05-12 Thread 白い熊@相撲道
On 2022-05-11 14:31, yasu wrote: This is also an old topic, but we need lesser-help-guix@... The help-guix@... seems so much against even discussion of such things... So for now (and let me stress, I do not like this situation of self- imposed-gagging and would like to help create alternative

Re: guix package -u . --do-not-upgrade

2022-05-12 Thread raingloom
On Tue, 10 May 2022 20:20:30 +0200 Andreas Enge wrote: > Am Tue, May 10, 2022 at 06:10:42PM + schrieb Gottfried: > > guix package --upgrade . --do-not-upgrade emacs vlc knotes (Can I > > put 3 after each other) > > Yes, that works. (In any case, you can just give it a try. If you do > not

Re: Guix home, guix system, channels, some noob questions

2022-05-12 Thread Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
Thanks, I made some test on my own to understand : 1 - Like you say, installing things with *guix install* is for current user (for example *firefox* and *sshpass*) 2 - Adding a package that don't exist to * myhome.scm* and reconfigure it with *guix home reconfigure* file will download a

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

2022-05-12 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Thu, 12 May 2022 at 09:37, 白い熊@相撲道 wrote: > For this reason I'd think it'd be beneficial to fully discuss the Guix > solution here. Moderators - can you give guidance on this? I am not a moderator and it is not a guidance. The Guix project is part of the GNU project; for the good, the

Re: How can I install gnu guix to a usb flashdrive to run as a live system?

2022-05-12 Thread 白い熊
2022/05/11 13:07:33 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice :   # guix system init system.scm /my/usb/drive ? One clear way is that AFAIR there's no documented way (yet) to pass '--removable' to grub-install, so you'll have to manually rename  the grub.efi to bootx64.efi.  Annoying but doable. I think

Why must GUIX_LOCPATH be manually exported?

2022-05-12 Thread Greg Hogan
I am seeing the following warning running Guix on a foreign distribution: $ man man man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct The errors disappear when I manually configure GUIX_LOCPATH, as described at

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

2022-05-12 Thread David Lecompte
Hi, Le jeudi 12 mai 2022 à 18:00 +0200, zimoun a écrit : > The Guix project is part of the GNU project; for the good, the bad or > the ugly.  What it implies is documented, for instance: > > < > https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html > > > These rules are

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

2022-05-12 Thread Yasuaki Kudo
One phrase I heard recently and struck a chord: Needs Unite, Ideas Divide We all need Free Software but I think the attitude toward non-free seems to vary - I seem to be on the side of "I don't care as long as I know where they are on my system" So yes, I think we just need to have a separate