Re: consider setting the necessary environment variables

[Thomas Bennett]

Hello Carlo,

Well after a while, I finally manage to take the time to deal with that 
issue.

And... thank you very much! Indeed, I had only one profile set instead 
of two.

I added the second and everything works like a charm.

On 2024-03-17 20:31, Carlo Zancanaro wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Sun, Mar 17 2024, Thomas Bennett wrote:
> > I have an issue where my root user seems to be unable to have its
> > environment set.
> That sounds annoying! Hopefully we can figure out what's going wrong for
> you. 🙂
>
> > # tail /root/.bashrc
> > [...]
> >
> > GUIX_PROFILE="/root/.config/guix/current"
> > . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
> This sets the GUIX_PROFILE variable to the current Guix profile. This
> adds the "guix" command to your PATH, but not any of your installed
> packages.
>
> There are two main profiles that you need to source. One if the current
> Guix profile, in $HOME/.config/guix/current, and the other is your
> user's package profile, in $HOME/.guix-profile.
>
> The former is suggested when you run "guix pull", and the latter is
> suggested when you run "guix package" commands (including shorthands
> like "guix install"). We can see this in your output:
>
> > root@brain ~# guix package -i bat
> > [...]
> > hint: Consider setting the necessary environment variables by running:
> >
> >      GUIX_PROFILE="/root/.guix-profile
> >      . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
> >
> > Alternately, see `guix package --search-paths -p "/root/.guix-profile"'.
> You mention:
>
> > I tried to manually source "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile" but it's no
> > better.
> but it's not clear whether you set GUIX_PROFILE to /root/.guix-profile
> before doing so.
>
> Can you try using this as your Guix initialisation code in your shell?
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile"
> . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
> GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.config/guix/current"
> . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
> unset GUIX_PROFILE
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> As an additional gotcha that might cause problems for you in future: the
> usual advice in Guix is to source your profiles in .bash_profile rather
> than .bashrc.  This allows "guix shell" to source .bashrc in a --pure
> environment without also including your entire user profile.
I moved the profiles configurations in~/.bash_profile as you mentionned 
and removed it from ~/.bashrc, thank for that as well.

Your help was precious.

Best,
Thomas
> Carlo