To try out Guile 2.2.0 easily from any GNU/Linux distro (from the full release notes): Bonus track! This release also contains a new experiment, a binary

To try out Guile 2.2.0 easily from any GNU/Linux distro (from the full release notes): Bonus track! This release also contains a new experiment, a binary installation package for the x86_64 architecture. The GNU Guix project (https://guixsd.org/) has assembled a graph of package definitions (for example, GCC, glibc, Guile, and so on) and is able to build that graph in an entirely deterministic way starting from only a handful of trusted bootstrap binaries. Guix recently added a "guix pack" facility that can export build products from a Guix system, including all run-time dependencies. We have used the new "guix pack" to generate an experimental binary distribution for the Guile 2.2.0 release. If you are on an x86_64 system running GNU/Linux, begin by running the following commands: wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.2.0-pack-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.lz wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.2.0-pack-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.lz.sig gpg --verify guile-2.2.0-pack-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.lz.sig If verification fails, then see above for instructions on how to import the appropriate GPG key. For reference, the pack's sha256sum is: c707b9cf6f97ecca3a4e3e704e62b83f95f1aec28ed1535f5d0a1d36af07a015 guile-2.2.0-pack-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.lz Then in your root directory -- yes! -- do: cd / sudo tar xvf path/to/guile-2.2.0-pack-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.lz This tarball will extract some paths into /gnu/store and also add a /opt/guile-2.2.0 symlink. To run Guile, just invoke: /opt/guile-2.2.0/bin/guile Voilà!