Spack is described as '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' and is a Package Manager in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Spack for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Flatpak, Go (Programming Language) and Homebrew apps. The best Spack alternative is Homebrew, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Spack are Flatpak, Warehouse, Nix Package Manager and GNU Guix.
Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn’t include with macOS. Also available for Linux.
Homebrew is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Spack.
Homebrew is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Spack.
Distributing applications on Linux is a pain: different distributions in multiple versions, each with their own versions of libraries and packaging formats. Flatpak is here to change all that. It allows the same app to be installed on different Linux distributions, including...
Warehouse is a versatile toolbox for managing flatpak user data, viewing flatpak app info, and batch managing installed flatpaks.
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...
A purely functional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.
GNU Guix is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Spack.
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.
Koca is the most popular Windows alternative to Spack.
A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community.
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".
A simple replacement for homebrew for installing binary packages on macOS written in Go.
Tvix is a new implementation of Nix, a purely-functional package manager. It aims to have a modular implementation, in which different components can be reused or replaced based on the use-case.
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