From a92a0ddaea4293ab232cf7e44ca11e65c6b6a1fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:38:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?doc:=20Reword=20introduction=20to=20=E2=80=98gu?= =?UTF-8?q?ix-install.sh=E2=80=98.?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Reword introduction to ‘guix-install.sh’. Change-Id: I51a1f55191cccde3800ef32a7a8ebe15f5e2c813 Signed-off-by: Rutherther --- doc/guix.texi | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 65e56575ccf..8a9e5d052c1 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -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