Cuur is an alternative to Nix but the extra features is instead of the Nix package manager it uses the system package manager. You can also use AUR and AUR helpers. This project makes distro-hopping a lot easier because you can write a configuration file to install the packages you want.

You can get Cuur from here. Pick the correct package for your operating system or distribution. For Debian pick .deb, for Fedora .rpm and for Windows .exe.

You can check out here to get the development version.

There are currently four flags. These are: --toml, --yaml, --json and --debug. Toml flag gets added by default but if you want to use a yaml or a json file you have to use the yaml or json flag.

cuur input.toml

cuur input.yml --yaml

Let's make a file called backup.toml. Inside this file, we are going to put the packages we use.

[sys]
works_on = ["all"]

[pkg]
install = ["sudo", "vim", "nano", "htop", "chromium", "firefox"]

This file we made works in all of the distributions. In the sys tab we made a variable called works_on. We declared the string all in this variable so every distribution can use this file. In the pkg tab we declared a variable called install. We typed the names of the packages we want to install.

Now we can execute this with the command below.

cuur --toml ./backup.toml

We can also put distribution names into the works_on variable.

[sys]
works_on = ["Arch Linux", "Debian", "Ubuntu", "FreeBSD"]

[pkg]
install = ["htop"]

This project uses GPL-3 License. You can look at the License from here.