Re: Problems with downloading from https

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> $ guix download https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/
> starting download of `/tmp/guix-file.Z7tZhy' from 
> `https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/'...
> ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls):
> ;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls)
> ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: make-session
> failed to download "/tmp/guix-file.Z7tZhy" from 
> "https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/";
> guix download: error: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/: download failed

The problem is that the GnuTLS Guile bindings must be installed for
‘guix download’ to work with HTTPS (the manual suggests it, but perhaps
not clearly enough?)

So just install GnuTLS, make sure ‘guile -c '(use-modules (gnutls))'’
succeeds, and then it’ll work.

Ludo’.