BoxBuddy

An unofficial GUI for managing your Distroboxes. Written with GTK4 + Libadwaita.

Note that this does not come with Podman or Distrobox, those will need to be installed on the host.

Installing

Flatpak

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Note: The Flatpak does not have filesystem access by default, so some features are disabled. Please see the documentation for details.

Local Binary

• Visit the releases section
• Download and unzip the release
• Execute ./install.sh

Documentation

Documentation lives at the GitHub Pages site.

Contributing

Please see the dedicated Dev Documentation and Translator Documentation.

Help Wanted

Help would be greatly appreciated in these areas:

• Translations
  • Currently implemented:
    • Czech (cs)
    • German (de_DE)
    • Greek (el)
    • Spanish (es)
    • French (fr_FR)
    • Hindi (hi)
    • Italian (it_IT)
    • Netherlands (nl_NL)
    • Polish (pl_PL)
    • Portuguese (pt_BR)
    • Russian (ru_RU)
    • Ukranian (uk_UA)
    • Chinese (zh_CN, zh_TW)
  • Any other translations appreciated!

Issues / Feature Requests

Feature requests are welcome! Please check the roadmap to see if a feature is already planned.

When filing issues, please keep in mind that BoxBuddy is just a GUI, and I am not a developer of Distrobox itself. Any issues with created boxes are probably better logged upstream.