Café Guix : How can I get more packages for Guix?

Dec 15, 2025

Online

Tuesday, 16 December at 1:00 p.m.

In this last Café Guix of the year, Simon Tournier will talk to us about how to create simple packages, and perhaps customise them.

Then, we will discuss channels for expanding your package collection. We will begin with a reminder on how to expand your package collection locally via –load-path, then how to transform these package definitions into a shareable channel. Or perhaps contribute to existing channels. Finally, we will begin a discussion on the maintenance of third-party channels.

Café Guix is a monthly informal gathering for discussion about the GNU Guix software environment manager. Students, researchers, system administrators, IT support staff from laboratories or computing centres—everyone is welcome to attend this monthly one-hour meeting, where we discuss questions brought up by participants about Guix and its use in a broad sense.

These webinars usually take place on the last Tuesday of the month from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at this link: https://meet.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/b/cel-dyj-m93-arv. You can view the programme for the coming year (as well as the address of a dedicated Mattermost channel) on the page dedicated to Guix cafés.