GNU bug report logs - #30728
guix-install.sh doesn't work if run with "sudo"

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>

Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: guix-install.sh doesn't work if run with "sudo"
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:54:04 +0100

Hi,

My system is Ubuntu 16.04.

I ran './guix-install.sh' and got the message: "This script must be run
as root.".  So I ran 'sudo ./guix-install.sh' and got an error message
saying that:

    GUIX_PROFILE="${HOME}/.guix-profile"
    source "${GUIX_PROFILE}/etc/profile"

the 'source' command doesn't work because ${GUIX_PROFILE} was never
created, ${HOME} being /home/clement, not /root.

To recover from this I had to manually delete /var/guix and /gnu, log as
root with 'su', and start again.

Clément
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