[Trisquel-devel] Installing dependencies for latest emacs and gcc releases

[Heime]

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On Friday, May 30th, 2025 at 10:28 PM, David Lecompte <trisquel at metani.fr> wrote:

> > > One suggestion could be to use the Guix package manager available at
> > > Trisquel.
> > 
> > I shall look into the capability very closely.
> 
> 
> On every non-headless Trisquel machine I install for myself or someone else,
> I install guix. One reason is to have ungoogled-chromium, as it happens that
> a few important websites are not functional enough with abrowser.
> 
> I follow exactly the procedure in the Trisquel wiki for this (there is a
> link to it from the "All manuals" page), on Trisquel with MATE environement.
> I have used guix once succesfully with KDE on wayland but I recall that some
> extra things were needed as KDE did not use /etc/profile.d/guix.sh installed
> by the guix package. I should try this again and add to the wiki the extra
> configuration needed.
> 
> Two things to note:
> - there have been slow response from savannah when running "guix pull",
> often getting a 504 error in response. In this case, retrying until it works
> can be a solution. However, there is a mirror (which may become or already
> have become the main repository, but I did not follow the discussions) on
> codeberg which was much faster recently. To use it, add "--
> url=https://codeberg.org/guix/guixhttps://codeberg.org/guix/guix" after
> "guix pull".
> - when running "guix install package_xxx" or "guix upgrade", if there are no
> substitutes (pre-built binaries) available for some needed packages, your
> computer will try building them. If this is ungoogled-chromium, on my
> machines, it typically takes several days, if it ever succeeds at all. If
> that happens, I just do Control+C to interrupt it and wait a few days before
> retrying. It is possible to only upgrade specific packages by running "guix
> upgrade package-xxx package-yyy".
> 
> Have a good time with Guix on Trisquel !

Have done 

guix install emacs

But that gets emacs-27.2 to be installed, not emacs-30.1 

 
> However, if you use Parabola, you very quickly have the most up-to-date
> version of packages. I regularly travel with a computer with Parabola as
> only distro installed, it is fine as a daily driver.
> 
> In my opinion, the main drawbacks of Parabola are that:
> - Parabola installation is not automatic, you need to do basic configuration
> according to the wiki and think of installing all the packages you need
> (like the right xorg driver, that I tend to forget), it took me a bit of
> time to get it working for the first time, but then it is fine as a daily
> driver. You could try it with a virtual maching in Trisquel. To make your
> life a little easier, use the systemd option, at least until you get
> familiar enough with Parabola.
> - It regularly happens that system upgrade (which one should normally do
> before installing any package) is not possible, often because some package
> in the "libre" repository (from Parabola) needs to be rebuilt due to some
> package upgrade in archlinux repositories (used by Parabola). Any failure of
> system upgrade should be reported so that Parabola developers are aware and
> fix it. Check the issues marked "sticky" and if any matches with your
> problem, add a comment to it, otherwise check "recent issues" and if none
> matches with your problem, create a bug report.
> 
> --
> David Lecompte trisquel at metani.fr