On Friday, May 30th, 2025 at 10:28 PM, David Lecompte <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > One suggestion could be to use the Guix package manager available at > > > Trisquel. > > > > I shall look into the capability very closely. > > > On every non-headless Trisquel machine I install for myself or someone else, > I install guix. One reason is to have ungoogled-chromium, as it happens that > a few important websites are not functional enough with abrowser. > > I follow exactly the procedure in the Trisquel wiki for this (there is a > link to it from the "All manuals" page), on Trisquel with MATE environement. > I have used guix once succesfully with KDE on wayland but I recall that some > extra things were needed as KDE did not use /etc/profile.d/guix.sh installed > by the guix package. I should try this again and add to the wiki the extra > configuration needed. > > Two things to note: > - there have been slow response from savannah when running "guix pull", > often getting a 504 error in response. In this case, retrying until it works > can be a solution. However, there is a mirror (which may become or already > have become the main repository, but I did not follow the discussions) on > codeberg which was much faster recently. To use it, add "-- > url=https://codeberg.org/guix/guixhttps://codeberg.org/guix/guix"; after > "guix pull". > - when running "guix install package_xxx" or "guix upgrade", if there are no > substitutes (pre-built binaries) available for some needed packages, your > computer will try building them. If this is ungoogled-chromium, on my > machines, it typically takes several days, if it ever succeeds at all. If > that happens, I just do Control+C to interrupt it and wait a few days before > retrying. It is possible to only upgrade specific packages by running "guix > upgrade package-xxx package-yyy". > > Have a good time with Guix on Trisquel ! I am seriously looking at the guix package manager, but not yet up to speed with the procedure involved in installing the latest emacs (emacs-30.1) from the current emacs-27.1. > However, if you use Parabola, you very quickly have the most up-to-date > version of packages. I regularly travel with a computer with Parabola as > only distro installed, it is fine as a daily driver. Have had difficulty figuring out what parabola download to use when looking at https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola > In my opinion, the main drawbacks of Parabola are that: > - Parabola installation is not automatic, you need to do basic configuration > according to the wiki and think of installing all the packages you need > (like the right xorg driver, that I tend to forget), it took me a bit of > time to get it working for the first time, but then it is fine as a daily > driver. You could try it with a virtual maching in Trisquel. To make your > life a little easier, use the systemd option, at least until you get > familiar enough with Parabola. > - It regularly happens that system upgrade (which one should normally do > before installing any package) is not possible, often because some package > in the "libre" repository (from Parabola) needs to be rebuilt due to some > package upgrade in archlinux repositories (used by Parabola). Any failure of > system upgrade should be reported so that Parabola developers are aware and > fix it. Check the issues marked "sticky" and if any matches with your > problem, add a comment to it, otherwise check "recent issues" and if none > matches with your problem, create a bug report. > > -- > David Lecompte [email protected] _______________________________________________ Trisquel-devel mailing list [email protected] https://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-devel
