Possibly of interest to browser and/or guix folks -
I was experimenting with the [Guix System Distro] on my laptop, and
managed to get Tor Browser Bundle running with a relatively new
feature `--emulate-fhs`. Details below. I haven't messed with it too
much yet, so I wouldn't be surprised if the runtime dependency list
below is missing some, which may result in runtime errors.
It'd be nice to get it packaged properly, but probably not high
priority in terms of wide user reach. It's essentially an OS for
people who think [NixOS] is too mainstream ;P
Maybe I'll get around to poking at it sometime; they have other
firefox variants in there (icecat), so that might be a reasonable
starting point.
[Guix System Distro]: https://guix.gnu.org/
[NixOS]: https://nixos.org/
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:39:21 -0600
From: Jim Newsome <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: john.kehayias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, help-guix@xxxxxxx, guix-devel@xxxxxxx
Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online
and don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly.
Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this
feature, and was able to use it to get a downloaded [Tor Browser
Bundle] running with:
```
guix shell \
--container \
--network \
--emulate-fhs \
--preserve='^DISPLAY$'
--share=/run/user/$(id -u)/gdm \
openssl@1 \
libevent \
pciutils \
dbus-glib \
bash \
libgccjit \
libcxx \
gtk+ \
coreutils \
grep \
sed \
file \
alsa-lib \
-- \
./start-tor-browser.desktop -v
```
`--preserve='^DISPLAY$'` and `--share=/run/user/$(id -u)/gdm` are to
get access to the display. I'm not sure the second parameter is
universally correct; I reverse-engineered it via roughly `ps aux |
grep -- -auth`.
The `-v` parameter to the browser script keeps it from trying to
background itself, which otherwise causes the container and browser to
terminate.
It'd ultimately be nice to package the Tor Browser Bundle properly for
guix, but it's nice to be able to use it this way in the meantime.
-Jim
[Tor Browser Bundle]: https://www.torproject.org/download/
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