GNU bug report logs - #22402
Guix Info page not found on foreign distros

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Thompson\, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
Cc: carl hansen <carlhansen1234 <at> gmail.com>, 22402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22402: info guix pages
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:23:42 +0100

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu> skribis:

> Ludo, to avoid this confusion in the future, perhaps the binary
> installation instructions for folks on foreign distros could have an
> additional instruction.  After symlinking root's guix to
> /usr/local/bin/guix, the documentation could suggest  symlinking the
> docs to /usr/local/share/info.  Would that help?

Good idea.  Done in aca738f.  Step #6 becomes:

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  6. Make the ‘guix’ command available to other users on the machine,
     for instance with:

          # mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
          # cd /usr/local/bin
          # ln -s /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix

     It is also a good idea to make the Info version of this manual
     available there:

          # mkdir -p /usr/local/share/info
          # cd /usr/local/share/info
          # for i in /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/share/info/* ;
            do ln -s $i ; done

     That way, assuming ‘/usr/local/share/info’ is in the search path,
     running ‘info guix’ will open this manual (*note (texinfo)Other
     Info Directories::, for more details on changing the Info search
     path.)
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Carl, WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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