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

[Xavier Del Campo Romero]

Hello David,

Isn't ungoogled-chromium already available from Trisquel repositories? I installed it from there on Trisquel 12.

Best regards,

Xavi

On 30 May 2025 12:28:12 CEST, 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 !
>
>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>
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