devbox add

Add a new package to your devbox

devbox add <pkg>... [flags]

Examples

# Add the latest version of the `ripgrep` package
devbox add ripgrep

# Install glibcLocales only on x86_64-linux and aarch64-linux
devbox add glibcLocales --platform x86_64-linux,aarch64-linux

# Exclude busybox from installation on macOS
devbox add busybox --exclude-platform aarch64-darwin,x86_64-darwin

# Install non-default outputs for a package, such as the promtool CLI
devbox add prometheus --outputs=out,cli

Options

Option	Description
--allow-insecure	allows Devbox to install a package that is marked insecure by Nix
-c, --config string	path to directory containing a devbox.json config file
--disable-plugin	disable the build plugin for a package
--environment string	Jetify Secrets environment to use, when supported (e.g.secrets support dev, prod, preview.) (default "dev")
-e, --exclude-platform strings	exclude packages from a specific platform.
-h, --help	help for add
-o, --outputs strings	specify the outputs to install for the nix package
-p, --platform strings	install packages only on specific platforms.
--patch	Allow Devbox to patch your packages to fix issues with missing native libraries (auto, always, never) (default "auto")
-q, --quiet	quiet mode: Suppresses logs.

Valid Platforms include:

• aarch64-darwin
• aarch64-linux
• x86_64-darwin
• x86_64-linux

The platforms below are also supported, but will build packages from source

• i686-linux
• armv7l-linux

SEE ALSO

• devbox - Instant, easy, predictable shells and containers