Last updated: 2025-11-25

Cross-platform package managers are designed to provide a large collection of software programs that can be installed on multiple platforms. They are commonly used to create developer environments that work across operating systems, or to supplement the system's main package manager (e.g. apt, dnf, pacman).

The following sections compare 8 cross-platform package managers: Guix, Homebrew, IX, Nix, pkgsrc, pkgx, Ravenports, and superconfigure.