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glibc

The GNU C Library

Any Unix-like operating system needs a C library: the library which defines the "system calls" and other basic facilities such as open, malloc, printf, exit...

The GNU C library is used as the C library in the GNU system and most systems with the Linux kernel.

Installation

Install the latest version of glibc as follows:

guix install glibc

Or install a particular version:

guix install glibc@2.29

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.