Nix Package Manager Alternatives

Nix Package Manager is described as 'Nix is a powerful package manager for macOS, Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup' and is a Package Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Nix Package Manager for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Web-based, Windows and Flatpak apps. The best Nix Package Manager alternative is Chocolatey, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nix Package Manager are Homebrew, Flathub, Flatpak and Bazaar App Store.

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  1. Spack icon
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    Spack is a package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS. It makes installing scientific software easy. Spack isn’t tied to a particular language; you can build a software stack in Python or R, link to libraries written in C, C++, or Fortran, and easily swap compilers or...

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
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  2. Koca icon
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    The universal build, package, and publishing tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
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  3. Portage icon
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    Package management system for Gentoo Linux.

    The Portage Development Project works to provide a continuously expanding and developing tool for the management and installation of packages. The developers work on providing a coherent system that is as trouble free as possible (bac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Directly install applications from their GitHub repository with out-of-the-box support for updates using GPM, the package manager with the superpowers of a cross-platform build tool.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. 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.

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    • Linux
    • Solus
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  6. Lix Project icon
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    A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community.

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    • Linux
    • Mac
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  7. 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

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
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  8. 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

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. 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
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  10. 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.

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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