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6 toolbox - Unprivileged development environment
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10 toolbox [--verbose | -v] COMMAND [ARGS]
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14 Toolbox is a tool for Linux operating systems, which allows the use of
15 containerized command line environments. It is built on top of Podman
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19 This is particularly useful on OSTree based operating systems like
20 Fedora CoreOS and Silverblue. The intention of these systems is to dis‐
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22 ware as (or in) containers — they mostly don't even have package man‐
23 agers like DNF or YUM. This makes it difficult to set up a development
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27 Toolbox solves this problem by providing a fully mutable container
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29 tools, editors and SDKs. For example, it's possible to do yum install
30 ansible without affecting the base operating system.
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38 The toolbox environment is based on an OCI image. On Fedora this is the
39 fedora-toolbox image. This image is used to create a toolbox container
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58 Print a synopsis of this manual and exit.
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75 Create a new toolbox container.
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