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, Flatpak, Flathub and Synaptic.

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  1. Flattool icon
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    Flattool is a command line script designed to improve user experience with flatpaks. It streamlines flatpak management tasks, making them more efficient and user-friendly.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flatpak
     
  2. Bower icon
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    Bower is a package manager for the web. Bower lets you easily install assets such as images, CSS and JavaScript, and manages dependencies for you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Git
    • Node.JS
    • npm
     
  3. Bedrock Linux icon
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    Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to utilize features from other, typically mutually exclusive distributions. Essentially, users can mix-and-match components as desired. For example, one could have:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. FlakeHub icon
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    Find, install, and publish Nix Flakes with FlakeHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • GitHub
     
  5. MacPorts icon
     26 likes

    The MacPorts Project is an opensource package management system that simplifies compiling, installing, upgrading, and removal of other open-source software on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and later, running on Intel or Apple Silicon.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. AM icon
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    AUR-inspired database, and package manager to install, update (for real) and manage ALL AppImages and other portable formats for GNU/Linux, system-wide or locally, with the ease of APT and the power of PacMan.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.

    36 YUM Package Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Robust package system that manages installation, updates, verification, and removal of software packages on Linux. Includes a library API for development in languages like C and Python. Widely used across Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, and more; released under GPL-2.0-or-later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. 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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    A 5-20x faster experimental Homebrew alternative.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. RPM Fusion provides software that the Fedora Project or Red Hat doesn't want to ship. That software is provided as precompiled RPMs for all current Fedora versions and current Red Hat Enterprise Linux or clones versions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. 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...

    18 Spack alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
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