nanobrew Alternatives

nanobrew is described as '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' and is a Package Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to nanobrew for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Flatpak and Arch Linux apps. The best nanobrew alternative is Chocolatey, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like nanobrew are Ninite, MacUpdater, Homebrew and Scoop.

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  1. Tappie icon
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    Tappie is a free GUI for the Homebrew package manager. It lets you browse, search, install, uninstall, and update Homebrew packages without the command line.

    4 Tappie alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. AppCenter icon
     7 likes

    AppCenter is a fast software store built on top of libappstore (https://launchpad.net/libappstore)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. Spack icon
     4 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  4. Autonomix icon
     1 like

    Linux package manager for GitHub releases - like Obtainium for Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Lix Project icon
     1 like

    A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  6. pkgsrc icon
     3 likes

    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!

    16 pkgsrc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  7. Fink icon
     8 likes

    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
     
  8. Easy Flatpak icon
     1 like

    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
     
  9. Rudix icon
     3 likes

    Rudix is a package-based, user-friendly way to extend the Unix portion of Mac OS X with additional network utilities, computer languages, development libraries, text tools and everything else you missed from command line.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. This project aims to bring the convenience of a declarative system approach to macOS. nix-darwin is built up around Nixpkgs, quite similar to NixOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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