Using pixi in fish shell

[janxkoci]

I wanted to try pixi on one machine, and compare my experience with conda/mamba.

But I cannot make pixi work in fish shell.

I installed pixi using the official script (curl + bash) and pixi works in bash. But I use fish as my shell of choice on this machine. But with fish, all I get is:

fish: Unknown command: pixi

For this reason even pixi shell-hooks doesn't work. PS: What I mean here is - using the command with eval in fish doesn't work, but calling it from bash with pixi shell-hooks | source doesn't do anything about fish either.

I haven't found any useful information on this in the documentation. The method used with e.g. mamba (open bash and run mamba init fish from there) doesn't work, because pixi init has a different function.

The machine runs Debian 12 bookworm. Fish is installed from Debian repo, and set as a custom command to run when I open my terminal app (as per the recommendation in fish manual), i.e. there is no global setting that says fish is my shell.

So how do people make pixi work with fish? I see people here using it, but cannot figure out how.

Thanks in advance for any help.

PS: I've found something helpfull in the documentation, but after trying it I got an error:

bash$ pixi shell-hook --shell fish
Error:   × could not find pixi.toml or pyproject.toml with tool.pixi at directory /home/jena

[janxkoci]

I've solved it in the end! Here is how:

From bash:

bash$ which pixi
/home/jena/.pixi/bin/pixi

Then in fish:

fish> fish_add_path /home/jena/.pixi/bin/
fish> pixi --version
pixi 0.59.0

Now I have pixi working in fish ☺️