# Is anyone working on a GUI tool to manage packages?

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/is-anyone-working-on-a-gui-tool-to-manage-packages/5540
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**Created:** [January 18, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/is-anyone-working-on-a-gui-tool-to-manage-packages/5540 "2020-01-18T15:40:52Z")
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### Author: ![jtojnar](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/jtojnar/32/70_2.png) [@jtojnar](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jtojnar)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/is-anyone-working-on-a-gui-tool-to-manage-packages/5540/4 "2020-01-18T16:12:25Z")

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There has just been a thread about one such project few days ago: [Nix42b: User-friendly interface for the Nix package manager](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix42b-user-friendly-interface-for-the-nix-package-manager/5377)

And few more attempts and discussions from the past:

- [Nix backend for PackageKit / Gnome-Software · Issue #233 · NixOS/nix · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/233)
- [https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/cu4dle/should\_nix\_have\_a\_gui/](https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/cu4dle/should_nix_have_a_gui/)
- [GitHub - matejc/nixui: nix-env graphical user interface](https://github.com/matejc/nixui)
- [RFC: Graphical installer for NixOS · Issue #21662 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/21662#issuecomment-379414671)

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