Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Pacman

The top open-source alternatives to Pacman are Homebrew, Docker, and NixOS. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Homebrew Landing Page
1

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 877 social mentions
Docker Landing Page
2

Docker

Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Container Tools 62 social mentions
NixOS Landing Page
3

NixOS

25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 246 social mentions
pkgsrc Landing Page
4

pkgsrc

pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 8 social mentions
Vcpkg Landing Page
5

Vcpkg

C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 23 social mentions
Chocolatey Landing Page
6

Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions
Flatpak Landing Page
7

Flatpak

Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Developer Tools 84 social mentions
GNU Guix Landing Page
8

GNU Guix

Like Nix but GNU.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Developer Tools 90 social mentions
Snapcraft Landing Page
9

Snapcraft

Snaps are software packages that are simple to create and install.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 88 social mentions
Scoop Landing Page
10

Scoop

A command-line installer for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 155 social mentions
FLATHUB Landing Page
11

FLATHUB

Apps for Linux, right here
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Work Music 198 social mentions
Buildah Landing Page
12

Buildah

Buildah is a web-based OCI container tool that allows you to manage the wide range of images in your OCI container and helps you to build the image container from the scratch.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#OS & Utilities #Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting 10 social mentions