Guix

Warning, work in progress

Guix package manager is available in Grid'5000 to provide an alternative way of installing software on nodes.

This page describe the use of Guix on Grid'5000. For additional information about Guix, see:

• Guix website
• Guix manual, package management section
• Guix HPC blog, with information about Guix usage in a HPC and reproducible context

How to use Guix on Grid'5000

guix is available on the standard environment directly through the guix command.

For example:

guix install hello

TODO: Expliquer quand ça compile ou quand ça télécharge seulement.

Each Grid'5000 site hosts a Guix server communicating with each other. So if you install a package on Nancy and then decide to install the same package in Grenoble the guix server from Grenoble will fetch it from Nancy.

Note: To work properly, a `.guix` directory is created in your home directory. If you remove it, guix will stop working since your profile is stored there.

Supported architecture

For the time being Guix is only available on nodes with x86_64 architecture.