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a92a0ddaea4293ab232cf7e44ca11e65c6b6a1fb — Ludovic Courtès a month ago 6275c91
doc: Reword introduction to ‘guix-install.sh‘.

* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Reword introduction to
‘guix-install.sh’.

Change-Id: I51a1f55191cccde3800ef32a7a8ebe15f5e2c813
Signed-off-by: Rutherther <rutherther@ditigal.xyz>
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

M doc/guix.texi
M doc/guix.texi => doc/guix.texi +4 -5
@@ 770,15 770,14 @@ This section only applies to systems without Guix.  Following it for
existing Guix installations will overwrite important system files.
@end quotation

The Guix project also provides a shell script,
@uref{https://guix.gnu.org/guix-install.sh, @file{guix-install.sh}},
which automates the binary installation process without use of a foreign
distro package manager.
The
@uref{https://guix.gnu.org/guix-install.sh, @file{guix-install.sh}}
shell script automates the binary installation process.
Use of @file{guix-install.sh} requires Bash, GnuPG, GNU@tie{}tar, wget,
and Xz.  On systems where systemd is detected, the tool
@command{newgidmap} from the @code{uidmap} package is also required.

The script guides you through the following:
The script goes through the following steps:

@itemize
@item Downloading and extracting the binary tarball