Dvlv / BoxBuddy

An Unofficial GUI for managing multiple distros via Distrobox

BoxBuddy

Deprecated

This version is now deprecated, please use the replacement written with Rust and GTK4/Libadwaita.

Original Readme:

A Graphical manager for Distrobox, enabling the creation and use of multiple linux distributions via containers.

NOTE Now deprecated for GTK Version available here.

Screenshots

Installing

Dependencies

• Distrobox

  • Podman or Docker

• One of the following Terminals:

  • Konsole
  • Gnome Terminal
  • XTerm

Instructions

Simply clone or download a zip of this repo, and launch the install.sh script.

The application will be installed to ~/.local/bin by default, or you can export INSTALL_DIR=/my/other/path to change the destination. Icons will be installed in $XDG_DATA_HOME, which is ~/.local/share by default.

Ensure that the install destination is in your $PATH.

Uninstalling

Simply delete the boxbuddy folder in your install destination and your $XDG_DATA_HOME, then remove the boxbuddy.desktop file from ~/.local/share/applications.

Developing

Dependencies

All of the above mentioned dependencies, as well as:

• cmake
• qt development libraries

The easiest way to get these on most distros is to just install Qt Creator from your package manager.

Building

Typical cmake workflow, e.g.:

• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake ..
• make

A go.sh script is provided for convenience, but be aware this will run the install.sh script on every build