[debbugs-tracker] bug#30728: closed (guix-install.sh doesn't work if run with "sudo")

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> guix-install.sh doesn't work if run with "sudo"
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> Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:54:04 +0100
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> Hi,
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> My system is Ubuntu 16.04.
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> I ran './guix-install.sh' and got the message: "This script must be run
> as root.".  So I ran 'sudo ./guix-install.sh' and got an error message
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>     GUIX_PROFILE="${HOME}/.guix-profile"
>     source "${GUIX_PROFILE}/etc/profile"
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> the 'source' command doesn't work because ${GUIX_PROFILE} was never
> created, ${HOME} being /home/clement, not /root.
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> To recover from this I had to manually delete /var/guix and /gnu, log as
> root with 'su', and start again.
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> Clément
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#30728: guix-install.sh doesn't work if run with "sudo" Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:07:29 +0200 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

Hi everyone,

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> This looks good to me.  Thank you!

I've committed this as 3cd4447f5639f45b7d833f6fb2adce11ea15ba1d.  If
anybody has additional concerns about the installation script or the
installation instructions, please open a new bug report for it and we
can discuss the topic further there.

Thank you for reporting this issue, Clément!

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Chris

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