Nix Software Center

A graphical app store for Nix built with libadwaita, GTK4, and Relm4. Heavily inspired by GNOME Software.

Features

• Install packages to configuration.nix
  • Flakes support can be enabled in the preferences menu
• Install packages with nix profile or nix-env
• Show updates for all installed packages
• Search for packages
• Launch applications without installing via nix-shell and nix run

NixOS Flakes Installation

flake.nix

{
  inputs = {
    # other inputs
    nix-software-center.url = "github:xinux-org/software-center";
# rest of flake.nix

configuration.nix

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    inputs.nix-software-center.packages.${system}.default
    # rest of your packages
];

NixOS Installation

Head of configuration.nix

if you are on unstable channel or any version after 22.11:

{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
let
  nix-software-center = import (pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "xinux-org";
    repo = "software-center";
    rev = "0.1.2";
    sha256 = ""; # add shaa
  }) {};
in

...

environment.systemPackages =
with pkgs; [
  nix-software-center
  # rest of your packages
];

For any other method of installation, when rebuilding you might be prompted to authenticate twice in a row by pkexec

'nix profile' installation

nix profile install github:xinux-org/software-center

'nix-env' Installation

git clone https://github.com/xinux-org/software-center
nix-env -f nix-software-center -i nix-software-center

Single run on an flakes enabled system:

nix run github:xinux-org/software-center

Single run on non-flakes enabled system:

nix --extra-experimental-features "nix-command flakes" run github:xinux-org/software-center

Building & Debugging

nix build . # root of project
cd .. # use pkexec outside of shell.nix

RUST_LOG=nix_software_center=trace ./software-center/result/bin/nix-software-center

# with inspector
GTK_DEBUG=interactive RUST_LOG=nix_software_center=trace ./software-center/result/bin/nix-software-center

Screenshots

Licenses

Some icons in data/icons contains assets from the NixOS logo and are licensed under a CC-BY license.

Some icons in data/icons contains assets from GNOME Software and are licensed under CC0-1.0.

Translation

To create a poedit file for translation run this command into the file where you want to save translations: xgettext --directory=.. --files-from=POTFILES.in --from-code=UTF-8 -kgettext -o translations.pot