Re: Run .deb or .rpm packages

2021-12-21 Thread Timmy Douglas
André A. Gomes writes: > I was wondering if it was technically possible, though. But I > understand your comment that I'd get a "file not found" anyway. > > From a freedom perspective, what are my options? Running a virtual > machine with ubuntu/fedora for this sole purpose? you might consider

Re: Run .deb or .rpm packages

2021-12-21 Thread André A . Gomes
Remco writes: > 2021/12/08 20:10, André A. Gomes: > >> From a freedom perspective, what are my options? Running a virtual >> machine with ubuntu/fedora for this sole purpose? > > I've had some success running debian packages from a chroot environment > on my guix installation. There's a deboots

Re: Nginx with PHP and sqlite

2021-12-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 11:18:38PM +0100 schrieb Andreas Enge: > That was a good start, thank you! Strangely enough reconfiguring and > "herd restart nginx" was not enough, I had to reboot the (virtual) > machine. This seems to be a known problem, see this bug, to which I added my case: https:/

Re: `example' package cannot be installed from a `nar' archive without network access.

2021-12-21 Thread Pierre-Henry Fröhring
Well, apparently it does not work with the `hello' package either. These lines : ┌ │ guix install hello │ guix archive --export -r hello > hello.nar │ guix remove hello │ guix package --delete-generations │ guix gc │ guix archive --import < ./hello.nar │ guix package -i /gnu/store/81bdcd5x4v5

GNOME shell extensions not being discovered or loaded

2021-12-21 Thread mason1920 via
Hello! I am having trouble getting two GNOME shell extensions I installed from Guix package manager on the Guix system to register with the shell. Having installed the packages gnome-shell-extension-topicons-redux and gnome-shell-extension-paperwm, no visible changes were made to my shell, even

`example' package cannot be installed from a `nar' archive without network access.

2021-12-21 Thread Pierre-Henry Fröhring
Hello Guix Help List, I according to : https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-archive.html It is expected that a `nar' archive is self contained. --recursive When combined with --export, this instructs guix archive to include dependencies of the given items in the archiv

Re: bootstrapping scenario for a package

2021-12-21 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 11:03:25PM -0800, Andy Tai wrote: > Hi, I was trying to update mono to the current release version. The > build step as documented actually says to download a minimal C# > compiler from the mono site which is then used to compile the rest of > the source to build the full s