GN can be deployed either as a binary tarball or as a GNU Guix package. First install GNU Guix following the instructions of the binary installation using a tar ball from here.

With guix-daemon running you should be able to install the hello package:

guix package -i hello

You may want to

#+begin_src sh :lang bash export GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 #+end_src sh :lang bash

Next add our archive key to guix (as root):

#+begin_src scheme echo "(public-key (ecc (curve Ed25519) (q #E9A95686D8437186302E07C7AB9BF3913F435026C2D389AF27D9C66FD6EBB649#) ) ) "|guix archive –authorize #+end_src scheme

if you have trouble finding a suitable guix try

ls /gnu/store/*guix-*/bin/guix

and you should be able to use this directly, e.g.

alias guix=/gnu/store/632msbms2yaldfnlrb5lbnlnmn9yjisw-guix-0.9.0/bin/guix
guix --version

Find the archive on

http://files.genenetwork.org/software/

download and install with

#+begin_src bash guix archive –import < genenetwork2-data-hash.nar #+end_src bash

and you should see a list of packages installing, e.g.

#+begin_src bash importing path `/gnu/store/l1zs2drn3zdzl5ysjcmhibcpa35p9zfc-python2-mysqlclient-1.3.7' importing path `/gnu/store/n7kfg4knibvblggy8ci2liscl7vz5wkg-python2-parallel-1.6.4' importing path `/gnu/store/qvv16qwlq59gp5d07lwbf5n8ndsi3il3-python2-sqlalchemy-1.0.11' importing path `/gnu/store/qw872mbmr9ir0a9drv9xw9pvjk05ywwy-python2-xlsxwriter-0.8.4' importing path `/gnu/store/wc112m1xfy3p08v14bdzay2ki2rirdsm-pylmm-gn2-1.0-3c6d1cac8' importing path `/gnu/store/zfkcy17c2ks3cd9ks14irdabqvmlfpyn-python2-flask-sqlalchemy-2.1' importing path `/gnu/store/cgcjdiz1qylbc372gc3nda3372ihkpqb-genenetwork2-2.0-a8fcff4' (etc.) #+end_src bash

The following packages need to be added and the R path set

export R_LIBS_SITE="/home/wrk/.guix-profile/site-library/"
guix package -i /gnu/store/w0dqg9dshq53j8xhcnqgvnvms2s6y5k5-r-wgcna-1.49-425bc170cc0873ddbd414675ac40f6d4d724c7cb
guix package -i /gnu/store/k60bdlm0v7xic88j2z5c1jb1jvc371mn-r-qtl-1.38-4

You can add the last one to your profile

guix package -i /gnu/store/cgcjdiz1qylbc372gc3nda3372ihkpqb-genenetwork2-2.0-a8fcff
export PATH=~/.guix-profile/bin:$PATH
genenetwork2

or run it directly with

/gnu/store/cgcjdiz1qylbc372gc3nda3372ihkpqb-genenetwork2-2.0-a8fcff/bin/genenetwork2

Update guix with a 'guix pull' and make guix visible in the path. More information exists also in my guix-notes.

With guix running you should be able to install python, for example.

guix package -i python2

This will make python appear in $HOME/.guix-profile/bin/python. Suggested environment settings can be seen with

guix package --search-paths