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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-09-02 17:44:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-09-02 17:44:56 +0200 |
| commit | fa747b27fc972240ca3f00a1a4d36e6601d0450e (patch) | |
| tree | d17d83bf8eb2bd05d46799d84dfc9dcb48222185 | |
| parent | 8b8ea8078124cd4a4a8d2c2effb20577a9c42b66 (diff) | |
| download | guix-fa747b27fc972240ca3f00a1a4d36e6601d0450e.tar.gz | |
doc: Update "Installing Guix from Guix".
* README: Make 'guix package' command line more readable. Mention --localstatedir.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README index 9328a4f89e..7dd016ef80 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -52,19 +52,23 @@ To do so: - Install the dependencies (see 'Requirements' above) and build tools using Guix: - guix package --install={autoconf,automake,bzip2,gcc-toolchain,gettext,guile,libgcrypt,pkg-config,sqlite} + guix package --install autoconf automake bzip2 gcc-toolchain gettext \ + guile libgcrypt pkg-config sqlite - - set the environment variables that Guix recommends you to set during the + - Set the environment variables that Guix recommends you to set during the package installation process: ACLOCAL_PATH, CPATH, LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH - - set the PATH environment variable to refer to the profile: + - Set the PATH environment variable to refer to the profile: PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$PATH - - re-run the configure script passing it the option - `--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/' + - Re-run the 'configure' script passing it the option + '--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/', as well as + '--localstatedir=/somewhere', where '/somewhere' is the 'localstatedir' + value of the currently installed Guix (failing to do that would lead the + new Guix to consider the store to be empty!). - - run "make" and "make install" + - Run "make", "make check", and "make install". * How It Works |