Container toolbox
Topics: Linux Container
Toolbox is a tool for Linux that allows the use of interactive command line environments for development and troubleshooting the host operating system, without having to install software on the host. It is built on top of Podman and other standard OCI Container technologies.
Backing up a toolbox
See the Fedora Magazine article “Backup and restore Toolboxes”.
Workaround for xdg-open
Sometimes, xdg-open doesn’t work inside a container toolbox (see this issue). There’s a workaround to override xdg-open with the following script, which needs to be placed in an early $PATH directory under the same name:
#!/bin/sh
${TOOLBOX_PATH:+flatpak-spawn --host} /usr/bin/xdg-open "$@"