Thanks Daniel and oleg, it worked.
> Am 16.10.2021 um 14:35 schrieb Oleg Pykhalov <go.wig...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Holger Peters <holger.pet...@posteo.de> writes:
>
>> I am trying to get started with guix home but somehow feel the docs
>> are missing (or I am not stumbling over the right things).
>>
>> So, I am running guix on top of a Debian testing, just to provide the
>> context that I am operating in. I found
>> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Home-Configuration.html
>> and what is missing is how the ~/.guix-home directory is created […]
>
> It's created by first 'guix home reconfigure' invokation. Did you try
> that? Also, what does 'guix describe' show?
