Install for all users?

[sinoroc]

Is it possible to install pixi (as root) for all users (on Linux)? If yes, how?

I have investigated a bit, but did not find anything conclusive.

[pavelzw]

Since this is a statically linked binary, you can just put it in /usr/local/bin/pixi.

curl -Ls \
    "https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/releases/download/v0.22.0/pixi-$(uname -m)-unknown-linux-musl" \
    -o /usr/local/bin/pixi
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pixi

If you also want to add ~/.pixi/bin to $PATH (for pixi global install), you could add something like this to /etc/bash.bashrc

export PATH="$HOME/.pixi/bin:$PATH"

This will adjust the $PATH in bash. You can do similar things in zsh and fish by modifying /etc/zshenv and /etc/fish/config.fish.

[sinoroc]

Thanks for that. Seems to work fine. Much more straightforward than I initially thought.

[pavelzw]

Actually you can also add the corresponding autocompletion line to the startup scripts as well for an even better experience: https://pixi.sh/dev/#autocompletion

[sinoroc]

Yes, adding to the following file seems to work fine (on Debian):

/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pixi

Why the eval indirection, though? I feel like it makes starting bash a bit slower.

[ruben-arts]

The benefit of eval is that if you update pixi you'll automatically get the updated completions. But you're ofcourse free to output the result into a file and source that in the shell startup.