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Title: Using firefox on Guix distribution |
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Author: Solène |
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Date: 16 August 2017 |
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Tags: linux guix |
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Description: |
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**Update 2020**: This method may certainly not work anymore but I |
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don't have a Guix installation to try. |
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I'm new to Guix, it's a wonderful system but it's such different than |
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any other usual linux distribution that it's hard to achieve some |
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basics tasks. As Guix is 100% free/libre software, Firefox has been |
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removed and replaced by icecat. This is nearly the same software but |
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some "features" has been removed (like webRTC) for some reasons |
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(security, freedom). I don't blame Guix team for that, I understand |
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the choice. |
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But my problem is that I need Firefox. I finally achieve to get it |
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working from the official binary downloaded from mozilla website. |
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You need to install some packages to get the libraries, which will |
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become available under your profile directory. Then, tells firefox to |
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load libraries from there and it will start. |
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guix package -i glibc glib gcc gtk+ libxcomposite dbus-glib libxt |
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.guix-profile/lib/ |
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~/.guix-profile/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ~/firefox_directory/firefox |
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Also, it seems that running icecat and firefox simultanously works, |
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they store data in ~/.mozilla/icecat and ~/.mozilla/firefox so they |
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are separated. |
