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Mamba

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FigureMambaRubyGems.org
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open source——
Web—Yes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published10
Spec score · Package Managers8.8 (#9)7.6 (#65)
InstallationThe docs recommend installing Mamba through the Miniforge distribution, which comes with conda-forge preconfigured, and also document Miniforge Docker images.RubyGems can be updated from the command line with `gem update --system`, and manual installation is also documented.
PurposeMamba is a fast, robust, cross-platform package manager that manages conda environments.RubyGems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service.

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Mamba

Mamba manages conda environments across Linux, macOS, Windows, API, and self-hosted setups. It creates and activates environments, installs packages, and runs commands inside them. It works with conda packages and supports most conda commands; its parallel downloads and libsolv solver speed package resolution. The framework includes the mamba command-line interface, the libmamba C++ library, micromamba, and Python bindings. Environment creation accepts text, Conda YAML, explicit, and conda-lock YAML specifications, and micromamba can install conda-lock files directly. The repoquery command searches repositories and can display direct, recursive, and reverse dependencies. Environments are self-contained prefixes that can manage native dependencies across programming languages. Mamba documents verification for package archives and extracted files, while repository index verification remains experimental. By default, it warns and asks for confirmation before transactions run package link scripts that can perform system operations. Mamba is free, open-source software under the BSD-3-Clause license, with lockfile support.

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