Re: Outreachy internship with Guix

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello Namrata,

Could you give us a status update?
Do you need any help?

Best regards,
g_bor

Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
6., Szo, 17:20):
>
> Hello namrata,
>
> namrata malkani <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 6., Szo, 
> 13:17):
>>
>> Thank you everyone, for your warm welcome and timely response. I downloaded 
>> the key from the download site and proceeded to verify it. But the public 
>> key was required so I ran the command to retrieve it:
>>
>> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 
>> 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
>>
>> which alas again returned the error:
>>
>> keyserver timed out
>>
>> keyserver recieve failed.
>>
> You can try this command without the keyserver argument, like:
>  gpg --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
> (this will try the default keyserver).
>
> Actually any working keyserver will do just fine, they are synchronized.
>>
>> I visited https://pgp.mit.edu/ to search the string
>> 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5 ( I guessed this must be the string 
>> needed to be searched to extract the key)
>>  but that search returned "no such key found." I decided to proceed with the 
>> installations then, and wrote the command as root
>>  (by  sudo -i ), to unpack the tarball in tmp folder:
>> /# cd /tmp
>> /# tar -xf guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
>>
>> And this is what it returned:
>> tar: guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz: Cannot open: No such file or 
>> directory
>>
>> I tried the same after saving the guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz in 
>> tmp folder but again the some result. I'm trying googling and
>>
>>  finding solution to this for now. Any help is most welcomed.
>>
>>
>
> From the error message above it seems, that tar does not find this file. My 
> first guess is that there something wrong with the version number here, the 
> version in the filename should be 0.15.0. Could you check the name of the 
> tarball again?
>
> If after you made sure that you have the correct filename it still does not 
> work, you might also need xz-utils (or similar) installed, so that you can 
> extract the tarball, or you can unxz, then tar -xf, if your tar does not 
> autodetect the compression format.
>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 10:53 AM Vagrant Cascadian <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2018-10-05, Björn Höfling wrote:
>>> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:28:08 +0200
>>> > Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> >> namrata malkani <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
>>> >> 5., P 16:23):
>>> ...
>>> >> > 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.
>>> >
>>> > I checked the download-page and the links there are to the same server
>>> > (alpha.gnu.org). Because you see a "Network unreachable" instead of a
>>> > "file not found", I suppose your network does not permit
>>> > FTP-connections (i.e. port 21 being blocked).
>>>
>>> Wild guess here, but might also be an issue in ipv6 routes, you could
>>> try to force ipv4 with:
>>>
>>>   wget -4 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
>>>
>>>
>>> live well,
>>>   vagrant
>
>
> Best regards,
> g_bor