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authorMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2020-10-22 22:43:38 -0400
committerMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2020-10-22 22:47:54 -0400
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README: Refer to the manual for building from Git.
* README (Installing Guix from Guix): Remove section.
(Installation): For installing from Git, refer to the "Building from Git"
section of the manual and suggest using './pre-inst-env guix pull' rather than
'make install' for installing Guix.
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@@ -34,24 +34,16 @@ See the manual for the installation instructions, either by running
 or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html][web copy of the manual]].
 
 For information on installation from a Git checkout, please see the section
-"Building from Git" in the manual.
+"Building from Git" in the manual, either by running
 
-* Installing Guix from Guix
+  info -f doc/guix.info "Building from Git"
 
-You can re-build and re-install Guix using a system that already runs Guix.
-To do so:
+or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-Before-It-Is-Installed.html][web
+copy of the manual]].
 
-  - Start a shell with the development environment for Guix:
+Following building Guix from Git, it can be installed by using:
 
-      guix environment guix
-
-  - Re-run the 'configure' script passing it the option
-    '--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!).  We recommend to use the
-    value '/var'.
-
-  - Run "make", "make check", and "make install".
+  ./pre-inst-env guix pull
 
 * How It Works