From 8fa9ace1d6022ff2dca4618d1c7b22dc4be28b86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laura Lazzati Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 14:51:21 -0300 Subject: doc: Add index entries. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * doc/guix.texi: Added various cindex tags to assist readers. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès --- doc/guix.texi | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index d021875bbf..441b65bcaf 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Mike Gerwitz@* Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Pierre-Antoine Rouby@* Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Gábor Boskovits@* Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Florian Pelz@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Laura Lazzati@* Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @@ -354,6 +355,7 @@ configuration in a transactional, reproducible, and stateless fashion (@pxref{System Configuration}). @cindex functional package management +@cindex isolation Under the hood, Guix implements the @dfn{functional package management} discipline pioneered by Nix (@pxref{Acknowledgments}). In Guix, the package build and installation process is seen @@ -387,6 +389,7 @@ garbage collection of packages (@pxref{Features}). @chapter Installation @cindex installing Guix +@cindex official website GNU Guix is available for download from its website at @url{http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/}. This section describes the software requirements of Guix, as well as how to install it and get @@ -398,6 +401,8 @@ instead, you want to install the complete GNU operating system, @pxref{System Installation}. @cindex foreign distro +@cindex directories related to foreign distro + When installed on a running GNU/Linux system---thereafter called a @dfn{foreign distro}---GNU@tie{}Guix complements the available tools without interference. Its data lives exclusively in two directories, @@ -420,6 +425,7 @@ Once installed, Guix can be updated by running @command{guix pull} @section Binary Installation @cindex installing Guix from binaries +@cindex installer script This section describes how to install Guix on an arbitrary system from a self-contained tarball providing binaries for Guix and for all its dependencies. This is often quicker than installing from source, which -- cgit v1.2.3