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Guix on Debian 11 - Cant run or find applications from Guix

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Message #44 received at 48796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Luke Burgess <burgesl <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 48796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48796: Guix on Debian 11 - Cant run or find applications
 from Guix
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 07:56:30 -0400

Hello,

Luke Burgess <burgesl <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>If you type "source ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile"
>>from a Bash shell, it loads the needed
>>environment variable settings into that
>>shell instance,and henceforth you
>>should be able to run "icecat"
> Maybe I should have read and understood the GUIX manual better.... Maybe I
> should not be haphazardly putting together my config.scm files on the
> fly.... Maybe I shouldn't be using root bash to test modifications I plan
> to make to my config.scm files... Maybe running GUIX on the 6 bear metal
> computers I use it on was a bad idea and I should be using VMs... But this
> explanation just saved me...Some root shells working and others not
> working, boy was I confused???... and this just saved me ... Mark H Weaver,
> Thank you, Thank you Thank you.
> Just one little thing I might still be getting totaly wrong... given I know
> the classical lines:
> #GUIX_PROFILE="/root/.config"
> #. "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
> What would this do differently in root, if anything?
> #source /root/.config/etc/profile
                ^ .config/guix/current/etc/profile ?

In any case, it doesn't matter if the user is root or something else,
it should work the same for any user.

Maxim

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