Re: Could not find bootstrap binary 'guile-2.0.9.tar.xz'

[Clément Lassieur]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Joshua,
>
> Joshua Branson <address@hidden> writes:
>> Maybe I'm being really silly, but don't you just do a guix pull as a
>> root user not as a normal user?
>
> No.  Guix is not like most distros where you have to be root to update
> the package list, and where root's package list is used by all other
> users.

Well, if guix-daemon points to root's profile (as it should if you
followed the documentation), you would need to do a guix pull as root in
order to update it.  I've no idea if it'll solve the problem though.

> In the Guix model, each user has their own version of Guix and its
> package list.  When a user runs "guix pull", it only updates Guix for
> that particular user, by changing the symlink ~/.config/guix/latest.
>
> If root runs "guix pull", it only updates the package list for root, by
> changing the symlink ~root/.config/guix/latest.
>
>     Regards,
>       Mark