# Install comtrya with Homebrew, winget

Configuration and dotfile management tool. Version 0.9.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-09. Also installable with winget: winget install --id Comtrya.Comtrya -e.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:comtrya
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install comtrya
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Comtrya.Comtrya -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Comtrya.Comtrya from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:comtrya
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/comtrya>
- **Version:** 0.9.2
- **Source summary:** Configuration and dotfile management tool
- **Homepage:** <https://comtrya.dev>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/comtrya/comtrya-dotfiles>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://comtrya.dev>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/comtrya/comtrya-dotfiles/archive/refs/tags/v0.9.2.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-09T08:54:47Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- comtrya (cli)
- comtrya (alias)

## Build dependencies

- rust

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 0.9.2
- Package-manager updated: 2026-07-09
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/comtrya/comtrya-dotfiles
- Upstream latest detected: v0.9.2 (current)
## Project history and usage

Comtrya is a Rust-based system provisioning and configuration tool whose official mdBook presents it as a way to configure machines with YAML or TOML manifests.

### Project history

The public documentation describes Comtrya around declarative manifests, actions, variants, privilege escalation, and package operations, placing it in the same practical space as dotfile managers and lightweight configuration-management tools.

### Adoption history

Its package-manager significance is mostly as a niche Homebrew-packaged CLI rather than a broadly adopted platform; the official sources do not provide enough release or user-adoption narrative for a fuller chronology.

### How it is used

Users write manifests in YAML or TOML and run the CLI to apply system, file, directory, package, user, and macOS-specific actions.

### Why package nerds care

Comtrya is notable for package catalogs because it represents the dotfiles/configuration-management pattern in a small Rust CLI with declarative manifests and cross-platform ambitions.

### Sources

- <https://comtrya.dev/>
- <https://github.com/comtrya/comtrya>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** comtrya
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** yes
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- winget - Comtrya.Comtrya: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Comtrya.Comtrya from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/comtrya.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/comtrya.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph