Guix usage

1.- You have to add Guix to your PATH and reboot

2.- No this is not possible, you could install Emacs with Guix and then launch this Emacs and it will have installed the necessary packages to use it as Synaptic.

3.- I am not sure, it is possible. You can look for all the installed packages using Emacs. Or looking for them here https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/

4.-Remove the package with synaptic and install the Guix version.

WARNING: DO NOT REMOVE THINGS UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Now for 1. How to add Guix to your path...

Did you follow step 8?

I'll save you the trouble it links here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Application-Setup

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14637979/how-to-permanently-set-path-on-linux

Hi all,

I just came back from a turbulence on the email service provider I use,
so I'll try to answer the questions as best as I can:

1. I'll split it in two:

1. Make packages appear as simple terminal commands: For this to
work, the PATH variable must reference to important places inside
"${HOME}/.guix-profile" (for clarification: "${HOME}" is [Your
user's home], don't worry, the shell understands it correctly, you
can even test it by doing "echo ${HOME}").

To do so, edit the ".profile" file that is under your user's home
(if it doesn't exist: create it), and insert the following text:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
export GUIX_PROFILE="${HOME}/.guix-profile"
source "${GUIX_PROFILE}/etc/profile"
export GUIX_LOCPATH="${GUIX_PROFILE}/lib/locale"
export GUIX_GTK3_PATH="${GUIX_PROFILE}/lib/gtk-3.0${GUIX_GTK3_PATH:+:}${GUIX_GTK3_PATH}"
export PATH="${GUIX_PROFILE}/bin:${GUIX_PROFILE}/sbin${PATH:+:}${PATH}"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

These "${[Some variable]:+:}" simply make sure that there is no
ending ":" if "[Some variable]" is unset.

Now, you can simply log out and then log back in (no need to
reboot the computer), and notice that IceCat can be launched from
the terminal using the `icecat` command.

2. To make an application launcher appear in the menus, provided it
does have a launcher file (I know IceCat does): For this we will
once again edit the user's ".profile". This time, though we need
to take some important notes.

In a terminal, make it show us what is inside ${XDG_DATA_DIRS}, to
do this, do: echo ${XDG_DATA_DIRS}

This will show you were most applications will look for things
such as launchers, text fonts, themes, and so on (besides the
user's ".local/share" directory). We must take note of what was
just printed/shown, I'll call this note as "Copied text".

Now, edit the user's ".profile", and add, after the last line that
I gave in item 1.1:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="${GUIX_PROFILE}/share:[Copied text, without these brackets]"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Now, you can simply log out and then log back in (no need to
reboot the computer), and notice that IceCat can be launched from
the menus.

2. Already answered.

3. Evolution (email client) itself isn't packaged yet. The data server
of it is. In fact, some packages depend on the data server to do some
things.

4. Remove the package with Synaptic and install from Guix. Be careful
though when removing packages using Synaptic. Thankfully, Synaptic is
one of the package managers that makes it very clear what will be
removed/updated/replaced/installed before doing anything.

It's a good idea to simply copy the list of actions that Synaptic
tells you that it would do, and post the list here in case of
doubt. People here will probably know if some package will end up
removing "too much" stuff.

Optionally, you can start searching for each item in that list of
actions, but this is not required.

Respectfully, Adonay.

Happy hacking! :)

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