run it is a package manager that is based on containers (yes like apx but declarative and written in rust), the difference is that run it is weighted to be used in both a declarative and an imperative way (the recommended way is the declarative way), run it uses podman in the background for the creation of containers.

Currently the only way to install run-it is to install it manually.

Requirements:

1. Podman

Requirements to compile:

1. Rust
2. git

then we must run the following commands to compile and have run it installed

git clone https://github.com/Juanperias/run-it
cd run-it
cargo install runit --path .

For this we are going to create a container with ubuntu and we are going to see how to do it in a declarative way.

To do this we create a manifest.toml with this content.

pkgs = ["neofetch"]
container_name = "my-ubuntu"
distro = "ubuntu"
default = true

then we do

runit apply manifest.toml
runit run neofetch

and just like that you are using run-it to install neofetch