@abcdw
I am using guix provided ares/arei
As long as I specify port 7888 (or use one line commands) everything seems to work wrt evaluation so good enough for playing with and evaluating.
Thanks
Mortimer

mbc@ins3910:~$ which guile
/home/mbc/.guix-profile/bin/guile
mbc@ins3910:~$ guile -v
guile (GNU Guile) 3.0.99-git
Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License LGPLv3+: GNU LGPL 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
mbc@ins3910:~$ echo $GUILE_LOAD_PATH
/home/mbc/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/3.0:/home/mbc/.guix-profile/share/guile/3.0