# Replit — System Dependencies on Replit

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2023-10-20T20:51:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/system-dependencies-on-replit
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18030-system-dependencies-on-replit
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit introduced a new System Dependencies tool, powered by Nix, that provides a user interface for adding, removing, and searching system dependencies in Repls, replacing the previous manual editing of the replit.nix file.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://replit.com/blog/system-dependencies-on-replit:

> We recently released some improvements to our Packages tool , and now we're extending that work to bring a new System Dependencies tool to Replit, powered by Nix!

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