Re: Outreachy internship with Guix

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello Namrata,

Welcome to the GNU Guix community. Sorry fro my first very terse response, I was at a mobile at the time, and wanted to forward your message to the mailing list, so that it gets acted upon on a timely manner.

Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 5., P, 16:28):

I will look into this and get back to you. 

namrata malkani <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 5., P 16:23):

Hello sir

I'm an outreachy applicant and would love to contribute GNU guix video documentation project.

As a prerequisite, I began installation of guix as additional package manager on top of my linux based system.

I downloaded guix-binary-0.15.0.x86_64-linux.tar from https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/ and procceeded with the binary installation process as mentioned in https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation.

I'm glad that you got so far. You can download the signature file from the download site directly, right below the download options for the binary tarball, you see the links for the signatures.

 

But when I tried to download the .sig file, using the command

wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
on my terminal, it returned an error:

Connecting to alpha.gnu.org (alpha.gnu.org)|2001:4830:134:3::c|:21... failed: Network is unreachable.

The .system. part in this url should be replaced by the system, for example: x86_64-linux.

I did not see the above network error by the way.

Also note, that it is not a must to check the signature, but it is recommended to do so.

 

There wasn't a way to proceed further as the next step was to verify this file which couldn't be downloaded.
Please suggest a possible way to tackle this. Looking forward to your reply and towards contributing in this organization
PS. I have also joined the IRC channel #guix, nickname: namrataM.
Regards
Namrata Malkani

B.tech, 2nd year, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi (IIT)

India

Could you check again, if the problem still persist to reach alpha.gnu.org from your location?

(it worked fine from my location at 17:16 utc).

Also, please take a look at building from source, as you might need that for your contributions.

Best regards,

g_bor