flox is a command line tool that helps you manage your environments. flox builds on top of the powerful ideas of Nix as well as making them accessible to everybody.

Install packages from the biggest open source repository (nixpkgs) that contains more that 80.000 packages.

With flox you can:
→ Create composable environments
→ Share your environments with others
→ Build container images
→ ... and much more

$ flox search hello           # <- Search for a package 🚀.

$ flox install -e demo hello  # <- Install packages into an environment 🔨.

$ flox activate -e demo       # <- Enter the environment shell 🎆.

flox [demo default] $ hello   # <- Have fun 🎉.
Hello world!

flox [demo default] $ exit    # <- Exit environment 💃.

We are happy to welcome you to our Discourse forum and answer your questions! You can always reach out to us directly via the flox twitter account or chat to us directly on Matrix or Discord.

Feel free to file a new issue with a respective title and description on the the flox/flox repository. If you already found a solution to your problem, we would love to review your pull request!

We welcome contributions to this project. Please read the Contributor guide first.

The flox CLI is licensed under the GPLv2. See LICENSE.