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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2020-07-15 21:22:01 +0200
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2020-07-16 20:12:07 +0200
commit4089d7920fc5f27fefdde6b0fec17f3224e62377 (patch)
treee81c1b1e52cc7d88bed73b3497b7aac8bce3e476
parent7fc2ba2a2cfb6568a2067e62c966fe35a7ed9bde (diff)
downloadguix-4089d7920fc5f27fefdde6b0fec17f3224e62377.tar.gz
guix-install.sh: Suggest running gpg as root.
The original example regularly prevented new users from installing Guix
at all.

* etc/guix-install.scm (chk_gpg_keyring): Suggest ‘sudo -i gpg’.
-rwxr-xr-xetc/guix-install.sh2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/etc/guix-install.sh b/etc/guix-install.sh
index 54bd813efd..efcc3d81d8 100755
--- a/etc/guix-install.sh
+++ b/etc/guix-install.sh
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ chk_gpg_keyring()
     # systems where gpg has never been used, causing errors and confusion.
     gpg --dry-run --list-keys ${OPENPGP_SIGNING_KEY_ID} >/dev/null 2>&1 || (
         _err "${ERR}Missing OpenPGP public key.  Fetch it with this command:"
-        echo "  wget https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145 -qO - | gpg --import -"
+        echo "  wget https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145 -qO - | sudo -i gpg --import -"
         exit 1
     )
 }