GNU Guix Reference Manual: Using the GNU Guix Functional Package Manager

GNU Guix Introduction Managing Software the Guix Way GNU Distribution Installation Binary Installation Requirements Running the Test Suite Setting Up the Daemon Build Environment Setup Using the Offload Facility SELinux Support Installing the SELinux policy Limitations Invoking guix-daemon Application Setup Locales Name Service Switch X11 Fonts X.509 Certificates Emacs Packages Upgrading Guix System Installation Limitations Hardware Considerations USB Stick and DVD Installation Copying to a USB Stick Burning on a DVD Booting Preparing for Installation Guided Graphical Installation Manual Installation Keyboard Layout, Networking, and Partitioning Keyboard Layout Networking Disk Partitioning Proceeding with the Installation After System Installation Installing Guix in a Virtual Machine Building the Installation Image Building the Installation Image for ARM Boards Getting Started Package Management Features Invoking guix package Substitutes Official Substitute Server Substitute Server Authorization Getting Substitutes from Other Servers Substitute Authentication Proxy Settings Substitution Failure On Trusting Binaries Packages with Multiple Outputs Invoking guix gc Invoking guix pull Invoking guix time-machine Inferiors Invoking guix describe Invoking guix archive Channels Specifying Additional Channels Using a Custom Guix Channel Replicating Guix Channel Authentication Channels with Substitutes Creating a Channel Package Modules in a Sub-directory Declaring Channel Dependencies Specifying Channel Authorizations Primary URL Writing Channel News Development Invoking guix environment Invoking guix pack The GCC toolchain Invoking guix git authenticate Programming Interface Package Modules Defining Packages package Reference origin Reference Defining Package Variants Build Systems Build Phases Build Utilities Dealing with Store File Names File Types File Manipulation File Search Build Phases The Store Derivations The Store Monad G-Expressions Invoking guix repl Utilities Invoking guix build Common Build Options Package Transformation Options Additional Build Options Debugging Build Failures Invoking guix edit Invoking guix download Invoking guix hash Invoking guix import Invoking guix refresh Invoking guix lint Invoking guix size Invoking guix graph Invoking guix publish Invoking guix challenge Invoking guix copy Invoking guix container Invoking guix weather Invoking guix processes System Configuration Using the Configuration System Bootloader Globally-Visible Packages System Services Instantiating the System The Programming Interface operating-system Reference File Systems Btrfs file system Mapped Devices User Accounts Keyboard Layout Locales Locale Data Compatibility Considerations Services Base Services Scheduled Job Execution Log Rotation Networking Services Unattended Upgrades X Window Printing Services Desktop Services Sound Services Database Services Mail Services Messaging Services Telephony Services File-Sharing Services Monitoring Services Kerberos Services LDAP Services Web Services Certificate Services DNS Services VPN Services Network File System Continuous Integration Power Management Services Audio Services Virtualization Services Version Control Services Game Services PAM Mount Service Guix Services Linux Services Hurd Services Miscellaneous Services Setuid Programs X.509 Certificates Name Service Switch Initial RAM Disk Bootloader Configuration Invoking guix system Invoking guix deploy Running Guix in a Virtual Machine Connecting Through SSH Using virt-viewer with Spice Defining Services Service Composition Service Types and Services Service Reference Shepherd Services Documentation Installing Debugging Files Separate Debug Info Rebuilding Debug Info Security Updates Bootstrapping The Reduced Binary Seed Bootstrap Preparing to Use the Bootstrap Binaries Building the Build Tools Building the Bootstrap Binaries Reducing the Set of Bootstrap Binaries Porting to a New Platform Contributing Building from Git Running Guix Before It Is Installed The Perfect Setup Packaging Guidelines Software Freedom Package Naming Version Numbers Synopses and Descriptions Snippets versus Phases Emacs Packages Python Modules Specifying Dependencies Perl Modules Java Packages Rust Crates Fonts Coding Style Programming Paradigm Modules Data Types and Pattern Matching Formatting Code Submitting Patches Sending a Patch Series Tracking Bugs and Patches Commit Access Updating the Guix Package Acknowledgments GNU Free Documentation License Concept Index Programming Index