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On Guix, I can install the hello package like this:

$ guix package -i hello

I can see that this package is available in different architectures:

$ guix package --show=hello
[...]
systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux armhf-linux aarch64-linux mips64el-linux
[...]

How can I install the hello package for a specific platform/system, say i686-linux?

hmk
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guix install itself doesn't know about architecture, but there's a trick. You can pass a package name to guix install, but also a store path directly. Using guix build, you can obtain the store path of the i686-linux variant of the package, like this:

guix build hello -s i686-linux

Then, you can install that, and as a one-liner:

guix install $(guix build hello -s i686-linux)
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