~ruther/guix-local

02840cc74fecabc8a288a5460837c5f3e4f909cb — Ludovic Courtès a month ago 6e89d38
doc: Mention the tarball URL and clarify binary installation steps.

* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Mention the tarball URL.  Clarify what
the steps do.

Change-Id: Ic929b10c29b69752fd549b78295682bdf4fb76f6
Signed-off-by: Rutherther <rutherther@ditigal.xyz>
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

M doc/guix.texi
M doc/guix.texi => doc/guix.texi +14 -6
@@ 789,12 789,20 @@ chmod +x guix-install.sh

The script goes through the following steps:

@itemize
@item Downloading and extracting the binary tarball
@item Setting up the build daemon
@item Making @command{guix} command available to non-root users
@item Configuring substitute servers
@end itemize
@enumerate
@item
Downloading the binary tarball from
@indicateurl{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-binary-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.tar.xz}
(where @code{x86_64-linux} can be replaced with @code{i686-linux} for an
@code{i686} (32-bits) machine already running the kernel Linux, and so
on---@pxref{GNU Distribution}) and extracting it.
@item
Setting up the build daemon (@pxref{Setting Up the Daemon}).
@item
Making the @command{guix} command available to non-root users.
@item
Configuring substitute servers (@pxref{Official Substitute Servers}).
@end enumerate

@quotation Note
By default, @file{guix-install.sh} will configure Guix to download