2.1 Aus Binärdatei installieren

This section describes how to install Guix from a self-contained tarball providing binaries for Guix and for all its dependencies. This is often quicker than installing from source, described later (siehe Erstellung aus dem Git).

Wichtig: Dieser Abschnitt gilt nur für Systeme ohne Guix. Wenn Sie eine bestehende Guix-Installation haben, würden wichtige Systemdateien überschrieben, wenn Sie der Anleitung folgten.

Some GNU/Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and openSUSE provide Guix through their own package managers. The version of Guix may be older than 0797fff but you can update it afterwards by running ‘guix pull’.

For Debian or a derivative such as Ubuntu, call:

sudo apt install guix

Likewise, on openSUSE:

sudo zypper install guix

The Guix project also provides a shell script, guix-install.sh, which automates the binary installation process without use of a foreign distro package manager⁵. Use of guix-install.sh requires Bash, GnuPG, GNU tar, wget, and Xz.

The script guides you through the following:

• Downloading and extracting the binary tarball
• Setting up the build daemon
• Making the ‘guix’ command available to non-root users
• Configuring substitute servers

As root, run:

# cd /tmp
# wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
# chmod +x guix-install.sh
# ./guix-install.sh

Anmerkung: By default, guix-install.sh will configure Guix to download pre-built package binaries, called substitutes (siehe Substitute), from the project’s build farms. If you choose not to permit this, Guix will build everything from source, making each installation and upgrade very expensive. Siehe Vom Vertrauen gegenüber Binärdateien for a discussion of why you may want to build packages from source.

To use substitutes from bordeaux.guix.gnu.org, ci.guix.gnu.org or a mirror, you must authorize them. For example,

# guix archive --authorize < \
     ~root/.config/guix/current/share/guix/bordeaux.guix.gnu.org.pub
# guix archive --authorize < \
     ~root/.config/guix/current/share/guix/ci.guix.gnu.org.pub

When you’re done installing Guix, siehe Anwendungen einrichten for extra configuration you might need, and Einstieg for your first steps!

Anmerkung: Der Tarball zur Installation aus einer Binärdatei kann einfach durch Ausführung des folgenden Befehls im Guix-Quellbaum (re-)produziert und verifiziert werden:

make guix-binary.System.tar.xz

… was wiederum dies ausführt:

guix pack -s System --localstatedir \
  --profile-name=current-guix guix

Siehe guix pack aufrufen für weitere Informationen zu diesem praktischen Werkzeug.

Should you eventually want to uninstall Guix, run the same script with the --uninstall flag:

./guix-install.sh --uninstall

With --uninstall, the script irreversibly deletes all the Guix files, configuration, and services.