Installing pkgx
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There are quite a few ways to install pkgx
but this is our recommendation:
Our installer both installs and upgrades pkgx
:
pkgx
is a standalone binary, so you can just download it directly:
For your convenience we provide a .tgz
so you can one-liner that:
Or in your Dockerfile
:
pkgx
makes it easy to consistently use the GNU or
BSD versions of core utilities across different platforms—handy for
cross-platform CI/CD scripts. eg. pkgx +gnu.org/coreutils ls
The AURs are community-maintained and might be out-of-date. Use them with caution.
You can also download straight from (you’ll likely need to unquarantine the downloaded binary).
If you're on Arch Linux (or any of it's derivatives) you can also use the (latest released version) or (latest development version, might not be stable).