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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2026-01-18 18:43:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Rutherther <rutherther@ditigal.xyz> | 2026-01-19 18:52:28 +0100 |
| commit | 02840cc74fecabc8a288a5460837c5f3e4f909cb (patch) | |
| tree | 3015f797d7c24c26ff14bc3304c2acb30f1780f9 | |
| parent | 6e89d38ce8b7c0e845213f84de1bedc776fdd790 (diff) | |
doc: Mention the tarball URL and clarify binary installation steps.
* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Mention the tarball URL. Clarify what
the steps do.
Change-Id: Ic929b10c29b69752fd549b78295682bdf4fb76f6
Signed-off-by: Rutherther <rutherther@ditigal.xyz>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 20 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index bdb41c93058..8c52a16a3a3 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -789,12 +789,20 @@ chmod +x guix-install.sh The script goes through the following steps: -@itemize -@item Downloading and extracting the binary tarball -@item Setting up the build daemon -@item Making @command{guix} command available to non-root users -@item Configuring substitute servers -@end itemize +@enumerate +@item +Downloading the binary tarball from +@indicateurl{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-binary-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.tar.xz} +(where @code{x86_64-linux} can be replaced with @code{i686-linux} for an +@code{i686} (32-bits) machine already running the kernel Linux, and so +on---@pxref{GNU Distribution}) and extracting it. +@item +Setting up the build daemon (@pxref{Setting Up the Daemon}). +@item +Making the @command{guix} command available to non-root users. +@item +Configuring substitute servers (@pxref{Official Substitute Servers}). +@end enumerate @quotation Note By default, @file{guix-install.sh} will configure Guix to download |