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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index c28ded1cf1..6c3dc7d208 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ You can confirm that Guix is working by installing a sample package into the root profile: @example -# guix package -i hello +# guix install hello @end example The binary installation tarball can be (re)produced and verified simply @@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ available with Guix and then define the @code{GUIX_LOCPATH} environment variable: @example -$ guix package -i glibc-locales +$ guix install glibc-locales $ export GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale @end example @@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ Multiple Outputs}). For instance, the following command installs fonts for Chinese languages: @example -guix package -i font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn +guix install font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn @end example @cindex @code{xterm} @@ -2492,7 +2492,7 @@ emacs-guix, The Emacs-Guix Reference Manual}), after installing with it): @example -guix package -i emacs-guix +guix install emacs-guix @end example @menu @@ -2610,6 +2610,7 @@ is: @example guix package @var{options} @end example + @cindex transactions Primarily, @var{options} specifies the operations to be performed during the transaction. Upon completion, a new profile is created, but @@ -2623,6 +2624,22 @@ For example, to remove @code{lua} and install @code{guile} and guix package -r lua -i guile guile-cairo @end example +@cindex aliases, for @command{guix package} +For your convenience, we also provide the following aliases: + +@itemize +@item +@command{guix install} is an alias for @command{guix package -i}, +@item +@command{guix remove} is an alias for @command{guix package -r}, +@item +and @command{guix upgrade} is an alias for @command{guix package -u}. +@end itemize + +These aliases are less expressive than @command{guix package} and provide +fewer options, so in some cases you'll probably want to use @command{guix +package} directly. + @command{guix package} also supports a @dfn{declarative approach} whereby the user specifies the exact set of packages to be available and passes it @i{via} the @option{--manifest} option @@ -3312,7 +3329,7 @@ like to discuss this project, join us on @email{guix-devel@@gnu.org}. Often, packages defined in Guix have a single @dfn{output}---i.e., the source package leads to exactly one directory in the store. When running -@command{guix package -i glibc}, one installs the default output of the +@command{guix install glibc}, one installs the default output of the GNU libc package; the default output is called @code{out}, but its name can be omitted as shown in this command. In this particular case, the default output of @code{glibc} contains all the C header files, shared @@ -3328,14 +3345,14 @@ separate output, called @code{doc}. To install the main GLib output, which contains everything but the documentation, one would run: @example -guix package -i glib +guix install glib @end example @cindex documentation The command to install its documentation is: @example -guix package -i glib:doc +guix install glib:doc @end example Some packages install programs with different ``dependency footprints''. @@ -4986,7 +5003,7 @@ module exports a variable named @code{emacs}, which is bound to a The @code{(gnu packages @dots{})} module name space is automatically scanned for packages by the command-line tools. For -instance, when running @code{guix package -i emacs}, all the @code{(gnu +instance, when running @code{guix install emacs}, all the @code{(gnu packages @dots{})} modules are scanned until one that exports a package object whose name is @code{emacs} is found. This package search facility is implemented in the @code{(gnu packages)} module. @@ -23634,7 +23651,7 @@ pointed to by the @code{GIT_SSL_CAINFO} environment variable. Thus, you would typically run something like: @example -$ guix package -i nss-certs +$ guix install nss-certs $ export SSL_CERT_DIR="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs" $ export SSL_CERT_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" $ export GIT_SSL_CAINFO="$SSL_CERT_FILE" @@ -23645,7 +23662,7 @@ variable to point to a certificate bundle, so you would have to run something like this: @example -$ guix package -i nss-certs +$ guix install nss-certs $ export CURL_CA_BUNDLE="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" @end example @@ -25427,7 +25444,7 @@ installs the debugging information for the GNU C Library and for GNU Guile: @example -guix package -i glibc:debug guile:debug +guix install glibc:debug guile:debug @end example GDB must then be told to look for debug files in the user's profile, by |