# ubi mit Homebrew, winget installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für ubi in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ubi
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ubi
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id houseabsolute.ubi -e
```

  Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: houseabsolute.ubi from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ubi
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ubi>
- **Version:** 0.10.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Universal Binary Installer
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi>
- **Lizenz:** Apache-2.0 OR MIT
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi/archive/refs/tags/v0.10.0.tar.gz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-26T21:15:45Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- ubi (cli)
- ubi (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- xz

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- pkgconf
- rust

## Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken

- bzip2

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 0.10.0
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-07-26
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi
- neueste erkannte Version: v0.10.0 (aktuell)
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

ubi, the Universal Binary Installer, is a small CLI for installing prebuilt binaries from GitHub releases and similar release pages. It belongs to the newer generation of package-helper tools that automate the common shell-script pattern of selecting the right OS and CPU asset, downloading it, and putting the binary on PATH.

### Projektgeschichte

The official repository describes ubi as the Universal Binary Installer. Its release page shows a 0.x project with signed tags, many platform-specific release assets, and continuing changes around asset selection, platform matching, Android support, libc matching, private-repository downloads, and supply-chain safety.

The project is maintained by Dave Rolsky under the houseabsolute namespace and is distributed under Apache-2.0 OR MIT in the batch input. Its own releases are themselves a demonstration of the problem it solves: the v0.9.0 release publishes many per-platform archives and checksum assets.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

ubi is adopted in package-nerd workflows where users want a lightweight installer for GitHub-release binaries without writing a custom curl, tar, and grep script for each tool. The batch input lists Homebrew and winget availability, reflecting its cross-platform installer niche.

Release notes show the project responding to real packaging edge cases: asset names that contain misleading numbers, Android targets, musl versus glibc Linux assets, private repositories, and minimum release age to reduce supply-chain risk.

### Wie es verwendet wird

ubi is used to pick a matching release artifact for the current platform, download it, and install the contained binary. Its package-nerd use case is bootstrapping CLI tools from upstream release assets when a native package does not exist or when the user wants upstream's current binary.

The v0.9.0 release added a --min-age-days flag to consider only releases at least a specified age, explicitly framed by the project as useful for mitigating supply-chain attacks.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ubi matters because GitHub Releases became an unofficial binary distribution layer for many small CLIs. A generic installer for those releases sits between full package managers and one-off install scripts.

For Homebrew users, the amusing recursion is that a package manager can install ubi, and ubi can then install tools that are not packaged or are wanted directly from upstream release artifacts.

### Zeitleiste

- 2024-2026: The visible release history is in the 0.x series, with repeated changes around release-asset matching and platform support.
- 2026: v0.9.0 is released with --min-age-days for release-age filtering.

### Related projects

- GitHub Releases are the primary ecosystem surface for ubi's installer model.
- Homebrew and winget provide native package-manager distribution for ubi itself according to the batch input.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi identifies the project as The Universal Binary Installer.>
- <https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi/releases documents release history, platform assets, asset-matching changes, private-repository handling, Android support, libc matching, and the --min-age-days supply-chain feature.>
- source_facts.package-manager identifies Homebrew and winget availability.


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

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


## Verwandte Links

- [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/de/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/de/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Developer build packages](https://pkg.so/de/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [xz](https://pkg.so/de/brew/xz/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pkgconf](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [rust](https://pkg.so/de/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [eget](https://pkg.so/de/brew/eget/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: binary-installer, cli, developer-tools, github-releases.
- [xcodes](https://pkg.so/de/brew/xcodes/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, installer.
- [ghr](https://pkg.so/de/brew/ghr/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, github-releases.
- [cargo-binstall](https://pkg.so/de/brew/cargo-binstall/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: binary-installer, cli, developer-tools.
- [swiftly](https://pkg.so/de/brew/swiftly/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, installer.
- [juliaup](https://pkg.so/de/brew/juliaup/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, installer.
- [makensis](https://pkg.so/de/brew/makensis/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, installer.
- [pie](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pie/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, installer.
- [changelogen](https://pkg.so/de/brew/changelogen/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, github, github-releases.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

- 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