Re: installing packages in Guix System

2022-02-17 Thread Gary Johnson
Gottfried writes: > When you install a package in an other Linux distro, it will be > available in the system. > > In guix it is different. I installed e.g. hplip, > system-config-printer,cups, cups-filters, but additionally I have to > add the printer settings in the /etc/config.scm file. > > Cou

Re: install a Printer

2022-02-17 Thread Gary Johnson
Lieber Gottfried, Schreib genau wie so: ;; This is an operating system configuration generated ;; by the graphical installer. (use-modules (gnu)) (use-package-modules cups) (use-service-modules cups desktop networking ssh xorg) (operating-system (locale "de_DE.utf8") (timezone "Europe/Berl

Re: Is mkdir-p a directory outside of /gnu/store.... possible?

2022-02-17 Thread Thiago Jung Bauermann
Hello James, James Smith via writes: > I guix package --install-from-file-myapp.scm and during the install process I > would like to > > (mkdir-p "$HOME/.config/myapp") and then > (system* (cp "/gnu/store/.../myapp/config.txt" "$HOME/.config/myapp")) Setting up a package’s configuration files

ssh key on smartcard for guix deploy to DigitalOcean

2022-02-17 Thread Reza Housseini
Hi Guixers, I'm trying to deploy a server configuration to DigitalOcean. My problem now is that my ssh private key resides on a smart card and I don't understand how this is working with the ssh-key field: (list (machine (operating-system calendar-server) (environment digital-ocea

Re: Guix OS + Wayland + Gnome Questions

2022-02-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Yasuaki Kudo writes: > I run Wayland + Gnome on my Guix OS. (See attached files for detailed > configuration) > > Q1. How do I Lock Screen? > > Q2. How do I take Screenshots? > > Q3. Should I not bother with Wayland and use X11 (or whatever that's > called that is the default)? I started to

Re: Is mkdir-p a directory outside of /gnu/store.... possible?

2022-02-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
James Smith via writes: > I am using the guix package manager on Debian. > I guix package --install-from-file-myapp.scm and during the install process I > would like to > > (mkdir-p "$HOME/.config/myapp") and then > (system* (cp "/gnu/store/.../myapp/config.txt" "$HOME/.config/myapp")) During

Re: Create new EFI guixSD installaton from existing bios guixsd installation

2022-02-17 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 01:40:19AM +0100, Martin Castillo wrote: > Or can you only create an EFI system installation when you're already > running on one? Sadly yes, because for EFI the boot information is not stored on disk but on the motherboard NVRAM. You need to boot with EFI to access it. Ex

Guix OS + Wayland + Gnome Questions

2022-02-17 Thread Yasuaki Kudo
Hello! I run Wayland + Gnome on my Guix OS. (See attached files for detailed configuration) Q1. How do I Lock Screen? Q2. How do I take Screenshots? Q3. Should I not bother with Wayland and use X11 (or whatever that's called that is the default)? I started to use Wayland because there

Is mkdir-p a directory outside of /gnu/store.... possible?

2022-02-17 Thread James Smith via
Hi, I am using the guix package manager on Debian. I guix package --install-from-file-myapp.scm and during the install process I would like to (mkdir-p "$HOME/.config/myapp") and then (system* (cp "/gnu/store/.../myapp/config.txt" "$HOME/.config/myapp")) I launch guix package -i... from my home

Re: Create new EFI guixSD installaton from existing bios guixsd installation

2022-02-17 Thread Martin Castillo
I'm back. On 17.02.22 01:40, Martin Castillo wrote: But here I did not know how to proceed? There is no grub-install in this chrooted /gnu/store(, which is weird, because a complete system should contain all files to update itself, right?). What am I missing? Or can you only create an EFI sys

Re: installing packages in Guix System

2022-02-17 Thread Daniel Meißner
Hi Gottfried, Gottfried writes: > When you install a package in an other Linux distro, it will be > available in the system. > > In guix it is different. I installed e.g. hplip, > system-config-printer,cups, cups-filters, but additionally I have to > add the printer settings in the /etc/config.sc

Reduce (use-module... to minimally required set

2022-02-17 Thread Mortimer Cladwell
Hi, I have taken the Artanis packaging recipe from guile-xyz.scm and modified it to suit my needs. For the (use-module... section I simply copied all the modules required by guile-xyz.scm. I suspect Artanis requires a much smaller subset. Is there a way to report modules actually used so I can re