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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-04-25 23:01:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-04-25 23:01:05 +0200 |
| commit | 43d8f4904c8dbd4d28017ce63b929ebb27a897d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 163588d839ebf8667c7ea7fb2338ce2deaa48ef0 /README | |
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doc: Add note on installing Guix from Guix.
* README (Installing Guix from Guix): New section.
Suggested by Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>.
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@@ -51,6 +51,16 @@ The "autoreconf -vi" command can be used to generate the build system infrastructure; it reports an error if an inappropriate version of the above packages is being used. +* Installing Guix from Guix + +You can re-build and re-install Guix using a system that already runs Guix. +To do so: + + - install the dependencies (see 'Requirements' above) using Guix + - re-run the configure script passing it the option + `--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/' + - run "make" and "make install" + * How It Works Guix does the high-level preparation of a /derivation/. A derivation is |