# Pre-installation

Before installing gnu guix as package manager, the following setup has to be done upfront.

## Name Service Switch

The daemon `nscd` has to be started. Under slackware this servicehas no rc.d script.
A simple solution is to add few lines to `rc.local` and creating a directory manually

```
sudo mkdir /var/run/nscd
```

```
# Start nscd (Name Service Cache Daemon)
if [ -x /usr/sbin/nscd ]; then
  echo "Starting nscd..."
  /usr/sbin/nscd
fi
```


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[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Name-Service-Switch-1
[2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Build-Environment-Setup.html