Box is a private open-source local AI workbench for the Linux desktop. Chat with text, images and audio, let a coding agent work on your projects, generate and edit images, and ask questions about your own documents , all on your own machine. No account, no telemetry: models download once, then run offline, you can also import models downloaded from huggingface.
Two inference engines
Box Code — a local coding agent
Point it at a project folder and give it tasks. It explores, edits with exact-match patches, runs commands in a sandboxed shell with no network, and keeps a todo list. Choose Ask mode to approve each risky action, or Auto mode to let it work.
Image Studio
Everything else
You decide what runs, kill switches built in
Every capability starts switched off. Tools that touch your machine ask first, and file writes always ask. Inference servers run kernel-sandboxed with Landlock, inside the snap's own confinement, with no outbound network. App Lock protects the whole app behind a passphrase.
Optional permissions
Camera, PipeWire and external drives aren't connected automatically:
sudo snap connect box-linux:camera
sudo snap connect box-linux:pipewire
sudo snap connect box-linux:removable-media
Note: Box Code's shell can only use the tools bundled in the snap, not compilers installed on your system. For full Box Code use, install the .deb from GitHub.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.
The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 9 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 8 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 7 with the following command:
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Adding the optional and extras repositories is also recommended:
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
Snap can now be installed as follows:
sudo yum install snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install Box, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install box-linux
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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