# boot-clj mit Homebrew, scoop, Nix, apt installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:boot-clj
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install boot-clj
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#boot
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bo/boot/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install r-cran-boot
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: r-cran-boot from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/boot-clj
```

  Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/boot-clj.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:boot-clj
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.8.3
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Build tooling for Clojure
- **Homepage:** <https://boot-clj.github.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/boot-clj/boot>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-22T14:02:54-07:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- boot (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.8.3
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Boot is a Clojure build framework and command-line script runner built around the idea that builds are programs. Its historical niche was giving Clojure projects programmable build pipelines, immutable filesets, classloader isolation, and ad-hoc scripting before the newer Clojure CLI tooling became common.

### Projektgeschichte

Boot's own README describes it as both a Clojure build framework and an ad-hoc Clojure script evaluator. Instead of treating a build as a static project map, Boot evaluates Clojure scripts in a runtime environment that can add dependencies, compose tasks, and pass managed filesets between task middleware.

The public release line visible in the official GitHub releases starts with 2.0.0 prereleases in late 2014, moves through 2.0 release candidates in early 2015, and continues through the 2.7 and 2.8 series. The 2.8.3 release in April 2019 is the last stable release shown in the sampled GitHub release metadata.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Boot was adopted inside the Clojure community as an alternative to Leiningen-style project configuration, especially for workflows needing composable pipelines, ClojureScript builds, REPL-driven automation, and single-file scripts. The official README lists package-manager installation paths through Homebrew, Nix, AUR, Docker, Chocolatey, and Scoop, showing that it crossed from library ecosystem tooling into OS package collections.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `boot` with tasks such as `repl`, `pom`, `jar`, and `install`, or write a `build.boot` script that composes tasks in Clojure. The wrapper script or executable is a thin launcher that downloads and runs Boot's JARs from Maven, so `boot -u` historically handled updating the runtime bits.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Boot is interesting to package nerds because it is both a package and a package bootstrapper: the installed command is a shim, while the real tool comes from Maven coordinates. It also illustrates a Clojure-era preference for programmable build logic, fileset immutability, and REPL-friendly build automation rather than declarative-only project files.

### Zeitleiste

- 2014: Boot 2.0.0 prereleases appear on GitHub.
- 2015: Boot 2.0.0 release-candidate series continues.
- 2016: Boot 2.6.0 and 2.7.x releases published.
- 2018: Boot 2.8.0 and 2.8.x releases published.
- 2019: Boot 2.8.3 published on GitHub.

### Related projects

- Related projects include Clojure itself, Maven repositories used for dependency resolution, Leiningen credentials compatibility noted in the curation data, boot-bin wrapper releases, and ClojureScript build workflows documented by the Boot project.

### Quellen

- <https://boot-clj.github.io/>
- <https://github.com/boot-clj/boot#readme>
- <https://github.com/boot-clj/boot/releases/tag/2.0.0-pre28>
- <https://github.com/boot-clj/boot/releases/tag/2.8.3>


## Sicherheitshinweise

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** yellow / mittel
- generalized runtime or code generation signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: $BOOT_HOME/boot.properties, ./boot.properties, $BOOT_HOME/profile.boot, ./profile.boot, ./build.boot, ./.bootignore

## Credential files

- Unix: $BOOT_HOME/credentials.gpg, ~/.lein/credentials.clj.gpg
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Scoop - extras/boot-clj: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/boot-clj.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Debian apt - r-cran-boot - 1.3-31-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: r-cran-boot from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | GNU R package for bootstrapping functions from Davison and Hinkley | https://cran.r-project.org/package=boot
- Nix - boot: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bo/boot/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - r-cran-boot - 1.3-30-1: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: r-cran-boot from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | GNU R package for bootstrapping functions from Davison and Hinkley | https://cran.r-project.org/package=boot


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph