Re: attempt to create a profile

[Gottfried]

Hi,
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to create my "Musescore-3.6.2" Profile

I would have to:

guix package -i musescore-3.6.2 -p projects/musescore-3.6.2.guix-profile

(because I have got the directory: /home/gfp/profile/Musescore-3.6.2
and I am already in my /home/gfp/ directory)

then load it:    export GUIX_PROFILE=/projects/Musescore-3.6.2

                 source "${GUIX_PROFILE}/etc/profile"

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to enter my Musescore profile I have to:

source /home/gfp/profile/Musescore-3.6.2/       

...do some stuff...
exit  (in the terminal, which I leave open during visiting the profile 
Musescore)

Am I through "exit" automatically in my normal profile?
 or do I have to enter through:

source .guix-profile/etc/profile

(because that is my main profile and I am already in /home/gfp/ directory)?
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I want to be 100 % sure that’s why I am asking

thanks for help

Gottfried



Am 06.01.23 um 16:45 schrieb Simon Tournier:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 15:09, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> > Which commands can I use to enter and close my new profile?
>
> To enter, you just need to ’source path/to/some-profile/etc/profile’.
>
> However, you cannot “deactivacte“; unset the environment variables and
> restore the previous ones.  Maybe, the easiest is:
>
>     bash
>     source path/to/some-profile/etc/profile
>     …do some stuff…
>     exit
>
> Instead, you can run
>
>      guix shell -p path/to/some-profile/etc/profile
>      …do some stuff…
>      exit
>
> which does the same thing as above.
>
>
> > ...and also at start up that I can choose which profile to open?
>
> What do you mean by “choose”?
>
>
> > guix package --profile=/home/gfp/projects/musescore-3.6.2.guix-profile
> >
> > and beforehand I created the directory "projects" and
> > "Musescore-3.6.2" in the directory "projects"
> > in my /home/gfp/ directory
> > (I did that because it said: "
> > file or directory was not found"
> >
> > but it didn't work.
> > "warning: nothing to do" was the answer.
> >
> > Where was my mistake?
>
> It is missing the option -i (or -m).  For instance,
>
>      guix package -i musescore -p projects/musescore-3.6.2.guix-profile
>
>
> Cheers,
> simon

--
Kind regards

Gottfried

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