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Expand Up @@ -214,12 +214,21 @@ description: Install or upgrade Flox
If you have Docker installed then you can also run flox in a container to
try it out before installing on your system.

**Invoke Flox container**
**Use Flox container**

The easiest way to run Flox in a container is to run the Flox provided container:

``` { .text .code-command .copy }
docker run --pull always --rm -it ghcr.io/flox/flox
```

**Install into an existing container**

If you need to install Flox into an existing container, you can use the `.deb`
or `.rpm` installers.
Note that Flox can only be used as root in containers, unless the container
happens to have `systemd` installed.

**Verify Flox installation**

If the following command returns without error then you're ready to get
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