prenv

portable reproducible environments for Linux applications

What is prenv?

prenv is a tool that allows regular users to deploy applications in a portable and reproducible way.

prenv does not require root privileges to be installed or used. The focus of prenv is to provide a tool that can be used to run applications in a reproducible way, without the need to install dependencies on the host system.

prenv does NOT aim to provide full isolation between environemtns and the host, for such kind case please consider using Docker or Podman.

Which applications can I run with prenv?

Currently you can run applications available to install from the following distributions:

- [Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org/)
- [Arch Linux](https://www.archlinux.org/)
- [Void Linux](https://voidlinux.org/)

System Requirements

• Linux or WSL2 (Kernel version >=4.18)
• Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 or 3.11

How to install

pip install prenv

How to use

Create an ephemeral in-memory Alpine instance

Using Void Linux

prenv create voidlinux
xbps-install -Su
xbps-install -u xbps
xbps-install -S curl jq
curl -s https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/status.json

Using Alpine

prenv create alpine
apk update
apk add curl jq
curl -s https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/status.json

Using Arch Linux

prenv create archlinux
sed -i "s/#Server/Server/g" /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
sed -i '/CheckSpace/d' /etc/pacman.conf
pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate archlinux
pacman -Sy curl jq
curl -s https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/status.json