gongqian / flox

Developer environments you can take with you

Developer environments you can take with you

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flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle

Install packages from the biggest open source repository (nixpkgs) that contains more that 80.000 packages.

With flox you can:
→ Create environments
→ Share your environments with others
→ Build container images
→ ... and much more

⚡️ Quick start

$ flox init           # <- Create an environment in current directory ✨ .

$ flox search hello   # <- Search for a package 🚀.

$ flox install hello  # <- Install packages into current directory's environment 🔨.

$ flox activate       # <- Enter the current directory's environment 🎆.

flox [my-project] $ hello   # <- Have fun 🎉.
Hello world!

flox [my-project] $ exit    # <- Exit environment 💃.

📫 Have a question? Want to chat? Ran into a problem?

We are happy to welcome you to our Discourse forum and answer your questions! You can always reach out to us directly via the flox twitter account or chat to us directly on Matrix or Discord.

🤝 Found a bug? Missing a specific feature?

Feel free to file a new issue with a respective title and description on the the flox/flox repository. If you already found a solution to your problem, we would love to review your pull request!

⭐️ Contribute

We welcome contributions to this project. Please read the Contributor guide first.

🪪 License

The flox CLI is licensed under the GPLv2. See LICENSE.