Lix Project Alternatives

Lix Project is described as 'A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community' and is a Package Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Lix Project for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Web-based, Windows and BSD apps. The best Lix Project alternative is Chocolatey, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lix Project are Homebrew, Flatpak, Flathub and Synaptic.

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  1. Solseek icon
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    Solseek is a simple terminal user interface that allows you to browse, search, and manage packages from the Solus packages. Packages can be installed, reinstalled, updated, verified, and removed through the interface.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Solus
     
  2. pkgsrc icon
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    pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages. It is the native package manager on SmartOS, NetBSD, and Minix, and is portable across 23 different operating systems. Use one package manager across all of your systems!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  3. RubyGems icon
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    RubyGems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. Instantly publish your gems and install them. Use the API to interact and find out more information about available gems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Easy Flatpak icon
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    It will help you install Flatpak apps in a user-friendly way. We have recipes for some of them to install them even better.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Fink icon
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    What is Fink?

    Fink is a project that wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. As a result, we have two main goals. First, to modify existing Open Source software so that it will compile and run on Mac OS X. (This process is called portin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. ndm icon
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    npm desktop manager - npm desktop GUI for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. dbin icon
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    A self-contained, static package manager, with over 3k binaries in its repos, all of which run on both MUSL & GLIBC, with repos for ARM64 as well. Single-file, single-config, no database, made in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Describe your MacOS development environment using JSON configurations. Codify will do the rest. Create reproducible, shareable, and consistent environments using Codify, individually and for a team.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. To bring out the virtues of Gentoo on different operating systems, the Gentoo Prefix project develops and maintains a way of installing Gentoo systems in a non-standard location, designated by a "prefix".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Kelp icon
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    A simple replacement for homebrew for installing binary packages on macOS written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
  11. nanobrew icon
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    A fast package manager for macOS and Linux. Written in Zig. Uses Homebrew's bottles and formulas under the hood, plus native .deb support for Docker containers.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Docker
     
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