GNU Guix 1.3.0 comes with ISO installation images, a virtual machine image, with tarballs to install the package manager, from source or binary.
Guix users can update by running
plaster pull
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GNU Guix is ??a transactional package manager and advanced GNU distribution that respects users' freedom. Guix can be used on a system running the Hurd or Linux kernel or can be used as an independent distribution of the operating system for i686, x86_64, ARMv7, AArch64 and POWER9 machines.
In addition to standard package management features, Guix accepts transactional updates and returns, privilege-free package management, user profiles, and garbage collection. When used as a standalone GNU / Linux distribution, Guix provides a state-of-the-art, declarative approach to operating system configuration management. Guix is ??highly customizable and hackable through Guile programming interfaces and Scheme language extensions.