GNU Guix Reference Manual: Table of Contents

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1 Introduction
- 1.1 Managing Software the Guix Way
- 1.2 GNU Distribution
2 Installation
- 2.1 Binary Installation
- 2.2 Setting Up the Daemon
- 2.3 Invoking guix-daemon
- 2.4 Application Setup
- 2.5 Upgrading Guix
3 System Installation
- 3.1 Limitations
- 3.2 Hardware Considerations
- 3.3 USB Stick and DVD Installation
- 3.4 Preparing for Installation
- 3.5 Guided Graphical Installation
- 3.6 Manual Installation
  - 3.6.1 Keyboard Layout, Networking, and Partitioning
  - 3.6.2 Proceeding with the Installation
- 3.7 After System Installation
- 3.8 Installing Guix in a Virtual Machine
- 3.9 Building the Installation Image
- 3.10 Building the Installation Image for ARM Boards
4 Getting Started
5 Package Management
- 5.1 Features
- 5.2 Invoking guix package
- 5.3 Substitutes
- 5.4 Packages with Multiple Outputs
- 5.5 Invoking guix locate
- 5.6 Invoking guix gc
- 5.7 Invoking guix pull
- 5.8 Invoking guix time-machine
- 5.9 Inferiors
- 5.10 Invoking guix describe
- 5.11 Invoking guix archive
6 Channels
- 6.1 Specifying Additional Channels
- 6.2 Using a Custom Guix Channel
- 6.3 Replicating Guix
- 6.4 Customizing the System-Wide Guix
- 6.5 Channel Authentication
- 6.6 Channels with Substitutes
- 6.7 Creating a Channel
- 6.8 Package Modules in a Sub-directory
- 6.9 Declaring Channel Dependencies
- 6.10 Specifying Channel Authorizations
- 6.11 Primary URL
- 6.12 Writing Channel News
7 Development
- 7.1 Invoking guix shell
- 7.2 Invoking guix environment
- 7.3 Invoking guix pack
- 7.4 The GCC toolchain
- 7.5 Invoking guix git authenticate
8 Programming Interface
- 8.1 Package Modules
- 8.2 Defining Packages
  - 8.2.1 package Reference
  - 8.2.2 origin Reference
- 8.3 Defining Package Variants
- 8.4 Writing Manifests
- 8.5 Build Systems
- 8.6 Build Phases
- 8.7 Build Utilities
- 8.8 Search Paths
- 8.9 The Store
- 8.10 Derivations
- 8.11 The Store Monad
- 8.12 G-Expressions
- 8.13 Invoking guix repl
- 8.14 Using Guix Interactively
9 Utilities
- 9.1 Invoking guix build
- 9.2 Invoking guix edit
- 9.3 Invoking guix download
- 9.4 Invoking guix hash
- 9.5 Invoking guix import
- 9.6 Invoking guix refresh
- 9.7 Invoking guix style
- 9.8 Invoking guix lint
- 9.9 Invoking guix size
- 9.10 Invoking guix graph
- 9.11 Invoking guix publish
- 9.12 Invoking guix challenge
- 9.13 Invoking guix copy
- 9.14 Invoking guix container
- 9.15 Invoking guix weather
- 9.16 Invoking guix processes
10 Foreign Architectures
- 10.1 Cross-Compilation
- 10.2 Native Builds
11 System Configuration
- 11.1 Getting Started
- 11.2 Using the Configuration System
- 11.3 operating-system Reference
- 11.4 File Systems
  - 11.4.1 Btrfs file system
- 11.5 Mapped Devices
- 11.6 Swap Space
- 11.7 User Accounts
- 11.8 Keyboard Layout
- 11.9 Locales
  - 11.9.1 Locale Data Compatibility Considerations
- 11.10 Services
- 11.11 Privileged Programs
- 11.12 X.509 Certificates
- 11.13 Name Service Switch
- 11.14 Initial RAM Disk
- 11.15 Bootloader Configuration
- 11.16 Invoking guix system
- 11.17 Invoking guix deploy
- 11.18 Running Guix in a Virtual Machine
  - 11.18.1 Connecting Through SSH
  - 11.18.2 Using virt-viewer with Spice
- 11.19 Defining Services
12 System Troubleshooting Tips
- 12.1 Chrooting into an existing system
13 Home Configuration
- 13.1 Declaring the Home Environment
- 13.2 Configuring the Shell
- 13.3 Home Services
- 13.4 Invoking guix home
14 Documentation
15 Platforms
- 15.1 platform Reference
- 15.2 Supported Platforms
16 Creating System Images
- 16.1 image Reference
  - 16.1.1 partition Reference
- 16.2 Instantiate an Image
- 16.3 image-type Reference
- 16.4 Image Modules
17 Installing Debugging Files
- 17.1 Separate Debug Info
- 17.2 Rebuilding Debug Info
18 Using TeX and LaTeX
19 Security Updates
20 Bootstrapping
- 20.1 The Full-Source Bootstrap
- 20.2 Preparing to Use the Bootstrap Binaries
- Building the Build Tools
- Building the Bootstrap Binaries
- Reducing the Set of Bootstrap Binaries
21 Porting to a New Platform
22 Acknowledgments
Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License
Concept Index
Programming Index

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