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[[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/][GNU Guix]] (IPA: /ɡiːks/) is a purely functional package manager, and
associated free software distribution, for the [[http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html][GNU system]]. In addition
to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional
upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user
profiles, and garbage collection.
It provides [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/][Guile]] Scheme APIs, including a high-level embedded
domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to describe how packages are to be
built and composed.
A user-land free software distribution for GNU/Linux comes as part of
Guix.
Guix is based on the [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]] package manager.
* Requirements
GNU Guix currently depends on the following packages:
- [[http://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.0.x]], version 2.0.7 or later
- [[http://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]]
- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/make/][GNU Make]]
- optionally [[http://savannah.nongnu.org/p