The purpose of GNU Guix is to allow users to easily install, upgrade, and remove software packages, without having to know about their build procedures or dependencies. Guix also goes beyond this obvious set of features.
This chapter describes the main features of Guix, as well as the package
management tools it provides. Along with the command-line interface
described below (see guix package
), you
may also use the Emacs-Guix interface (see The
Emacs-Guix Reference Manual), after installing emacs-guix
package
(run M-x guix-help command to start with it):
guix install emacs-guix