July 10Jul 10 Hey, I am getting closer and closer to installing Unraid! 😁 Here two questions about the Terminal environment in Unraid:When in the terminal I love having some special CLI tools available: Nushell, fd, chezmoi to name a few. What is the best way to install them on Unraid? AI pointed me to the Unraid plugins NerdTools and unget, but are these the way to go?
July 10Jul 10 Community Expert considering unraid is not a full fledged linux distribution, your mileage may vary with installing such packages if their dependencies are not found.If you really insist on having those you need to find them on slackware's package site and you can place the .tar.gz file under /boot/extra on the boot USB/disk and unraid will extract and install them on each boot. Edited July 10Jul 10 by MowMdown
July 14Jul 14 Author On 7/10/2026 at 11:01 AM, MowMdown said:If you really insist on having those you need to find them on slackware's package site and you can place the .tar.gz file under /boot/extra on the boot USB/disk and unraid will extract and install them on each boot.Thanks. Some of the tools come as pre-built MUSL binaries: Nothing to unpack and install - they are just binaries.I might just use them. How can I get them into Unraid?
July 14Jul 14 Community Expert You just put them somewhere you can execute them, how you get them onto your system is up to you.
July 27Jul 27 Author On 7/15/2026 at 2:44 AM, MowMdown said:You just put them somewhere you can execute them [...]Thanks for coming back to my issue, but I'm slightly confused: Isn't the system wiped from the USB stick everytime it boots up? So the executable (in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin or even ~/bin) would be wiped too, wouldn't it? I thought that's what this /boot/extra hack is for.
July 27Jul 27 Community Expert 3 hours ago, halloleo said:Thanks for coming back to my issue, but I'm slightly confused: Isn't the system wiped from the USB stick everytime it boots up? So the executable (in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin or even ~/bin) would be wiped too, wouldn't it? I thought that's what this /boot/extra hack is for.Correct you’d need to either run them from a drive location or copy them each boot to whatever executable directory you want using a script
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