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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 8241cb07bf..1b1690a8e3 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -950,6 +950,16 @@ created in @file{$HOME/.guix-profile}. This symlink always points to the current generation of the user's default profile. Thus, users can add @file{$HOME/.guix-profile/bin} to their @code{PATH} environment variable, and so on. +@cindex search paths +If you are not using the Guix System Distribution, consider adding the +following lines to your @file{~/.bash_profile} (@pxref{Bash Startup +Files,,, bash, The GNU Bash Reference Manual}) so that newly-spawned +shells get all the right environment variable definitions: + +@example +GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile" \ +source "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile" +@end example In a multi-user setup, user profiles are stored in a place registered as a @dfn{garbage-collector root}, which @file{$HOME/.guix-profile} points |