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b4d0288c46doc: update Guix INSTALL.md (fanquake) Pull request description: It's somewhat annoying that Guix is falling out of being packaged by distros. For some more context, see https://lwn.net/Articles/1035491/. > However, it is likely that the [Guix](https://guix.gnu.org/en/) package manager will soon be removed from the repositories for Debian 13 and Debian 12 ("bookworm", also called oldstable). This seems to be happening. You can't `apt install guix` using the current release of Debian. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=guix. Guix is not going to be included in next release of Ubuntu (`25.10`): https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=guix. Looking at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guix, comments over the last few months seem to indicate that the build is broken. A 1.5.0 release is planned for sometime in January 2026: https://codeberg.org/guix/release-planning/wiki/release-1.5.0-project/. So hopefully the situation is going to improve in future. ACKs for top commit: willcl-ark: ACKb4d0288c46hebasto: ACKb4d0288c46. Tree-SHA512: 545f3529af82c18556ddfe104c01f77e28da31018a44047812450565a9b3bad3afa60f714b375c06c3a10aed722d54500846aa70a8069c5fe2d96b26d426b6c1
Repository Tools
Developer tools
Specific tools for developers working on this repository.
Additional tools, including the github-merge.py script, are available in the maintainer-tools repository.
Verify-Commits
Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the github-merge.py script.
Linearize
Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.
Qos
A Linux bash script that will set up traffic control (tc) to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it.
Seeds
Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.
Build Tools and Keys
Packaging
The Debian subfolder contains the copyright file.
All other packaging related files can be found in the bitcoin-core/packaging repository.
MacDeploy
Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
Test and Verify Tools
TestGen
Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.
Verify-Binaries
This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.
Command Line Tools
Completions
Shell completions for bash and fish.
UTXO Set Tools
UTXO-to-SQLite
This script converts a compact-serialized UTXO set (as generated by Bitcoin Core with dumptxoutset)
to a SQLite3 database. For more details like e.g. the created table name and schema, refer to the
module docstring on top of the script, which is also contained in the command's --help output.