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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2026-01-18 18:38:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Rutherther <rutherther@ditigal.xyz> | 2026-01-19 18:52:26 +0100 |
| commit | a92a0ddaea4293ab232cf7e44ca11e65c6b6a1fb (patch) | |
| tree | fbc8fcdfb9409f4445b7d1e889e41759c2177eec /doc | |
| parent | 6275c911bd1c58a742bf1bd29c52d684100df1b1 (diff) | |
doc: Reword introduction to ‘guix-install.sh‘.
* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Reword introduction to
‘guix-install.sh’.
Change-Id: I51a1f55191cccde3800ef32a7a8ebe15f5e2c813
Signed-off-by: Rutherther <rutherther@ditigal.xyz>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 65e56575ccf..8a9e5d052c1 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -770,15 +770,14 @@ This section only applies to systems without Guix. Following it for existing Guix installations will overwrite important system files. @end quotation -The Guix project also provides a shell script, -@uref{https://guix.gnu.org/guix-install.sh, @file{guix-install.sh}}, -which automates the binary installation process without use of a foreign -distro package manager. +The +@uref{https://guix.gnu.org/guix-install.sh, @file{guix-install.sh}} +shell script automates the binary installation process. Use of @file{guix-install.sh} requires Bash, GnuPG, GNU@tie{}tar, wget, and Xz. On systems where systemd is detected, the tool @command{newgidmap} from the @code{uidmap} package is also required. -The script guides you through the following: +The script goes through the following steps: @itemize @item Downloading and extracting the binary tarball |