1toolbox(1)()                                                      toolbox(1)()
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NAME

6       toolbox - Unprivileged development environment
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SYNOPSIS

10       toolbox [--verbose | -v] COMMAND [ARGS]
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DESCRIPTION

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‐
21       courage installation of software on the host, and instead install soft‐
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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33       However,  this  tool  doesn't  require using an OSTree based system. It
34       works equally well on Fedora Workstation and Server, and that's a  use‐
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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
40       that  seamlessly  integrates  with  the rest of the operating system by
41       providing access to the user's home  directory,  the  Wayland  and  X11
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OPTIONS

46       The following options are understood:
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58       Print a synopsis of this manual and exit.
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COMMANDS

69       Commands for working with toolbox containers and images:
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75       Create a new toolbox container.
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117       Run a command in an existing toolbox container.
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SEE ALSO

121       buildah(1), podman(1)
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