Testing GUIX

COMPUTER

I installed guix with:

# Install nscd (name service cache daemon) to help pick up guix libs
sudo apt install nscd
sudo systemctl enable nscd

# install guix
# Ref: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html
cd /tmp
wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
chmod +x guix-install.sh
sudo ./guix-install.sh

# update guix
guix pull

# log out and in again
# confirm guix-daemon is running with:
ps aux | grep -i guix

#  installing guix locales, used by libc installed via guix
guix install glibc-locales

# ensures guix libs and apps can do https
guix install nss-certs

# Add the following to .profile
GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile"
GUIX_LOCPATH=$GUIX_PROFILE/lib/locale
. "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"

I like i3 window manager and the ubuntu provided version doesn't yet support gaps. I installed i3 using the ubuntu package manager (apt), which configured the login manager for i3 in /usr/share/xsessions/. I then installed i3-gaps using guix and it had preference to the i3 installed via apt.

sudo apt-install i3
guix install i3-gaps

I set up fonts using:

guix install fontconfig
fc-cache -rv

and installed other useful packages:

# installing my editor
guix install python neovim python-pynvim git

I update my guix system using:

guix pull
guix package -u

I needed to install neovim that was build with a later version of the gcc-tool chain. I solved this with:

guix package -i neovim --with-c-toolchain=tree-sitter=gcc-tool-chain@12.2