Re: Few questions regarding the installation

[Felix Lechner]

Hi Wolf,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 4:02 PM Wolf <wolf@wolfsden.cz> wrote:
>
> On IRC I was advised to try guix install lvm2-static, which does work
> (after sourcing the profile),

That is the correct procedure.

> however it does download the package
> from the internet. That seems pointless, since I already have one
> locally (as seen in the output of find above), so I would prefer to
> use that one.

The versions may be slightly different. I do not believe the Guix
daemon would download a new version if it was already present in your
store. Please remember that the hash in the name of the store item may
be different.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner