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    A CLI container management utility.

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What is user?

user allows for container management through the command-line, a use-case that had not been considered prior to v3.

CLI usage#

Create a container#

user create-container <CONTAINERNAME> <DISTRO>
Creates a container with the selected distro.

<DISTRO> can be one of the distro IDs specified below:

Distro Distro ID Container URL
Arch Linux arch-linux docker.io/library/archlinux:latest
Debian Testing debian quay.io/toolbx-images/debian-toolbox:testing
Fedora 42 fedora-42 registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:42
CentOS Stream centos quay.io/toolbx-images/centos-toolbox:latest
Ubuntu 22.04 ubuntu-22.04 quay.io/toolbx/ubuntu-toolbox:22.04
Ubuntu 24.04 ubuntu-24.04-lts quay.io/toolbx/ubuntu-toolbox:24.04

Remove a container#

user remove-container <CONTAINERNAME>
Removes a container.

Enter a container#

user shell <CONTAINERNAME>
Spawns a shell in the container.

Create an association#

user associate <BINARYNAME> <CONTAINERNAME>
Creates an association so that commonly-used binaries can be called without a suffix.

Delete an association#

user dissociate <BINARYNAME>
Deletes an existing association.

Install a package#

user install <CONTAINERNAME> <PKG1> [PKG2 PKG3 PKGs...]
Installs (a) package(s) to the selected container.

Remove a package#

user remove <CONTAINERNAME> <PKG1> [PKG1 PKG2 PKGs...]

Removes (a) package(s) from the selected container.