Strange! Are you using the Guix distro or Guix on top of another distro? My best guess is that the version of Guix that you pulled is not being used somehow. One thing to try is running `hash guix` first to ensure that the guix executable being invoked is the right thing. For example, `which guix` outputs /home/dave/.config/guix/current/bin/guix for me. You should see something similar for your user account.
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that seems to be the problem, i must be missing a step to set up my path properly
edit: I had the wrong thing in my bash_profile, manually running guix pull from ~/.config/guix/current and then following those instructions got it working! the previous guix pull had given me slightly different instructions. thanks for the help!