# catgirl mit Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts, Nix, scoop installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:catgirl
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install catgirl
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install catgirl
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: net/catgirl/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add catgirl
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: catgirl from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install catgirl
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#catgirl
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/sandman
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:catgirl
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.2a
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Terminal IRC client
- **Homepage:** <https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about/>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- catgirl (Alias)
- sandman (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.2a
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

catgirl is a terminal IRC client with a curses interface for IRC over TLS. Its README emphasizes focused terminal usability: tab completion, split scroll, URL handling, stable nick coloring, topic diffing, ignore filters, and sandboxing on BSD systems.

### Projektgeschichte

The official README presents catgirl as part of June McEnroe's IRC suite and points to an IRC Suite essay dated June 19, 2020. The project deliberately keeps a narrow scope: no dynamic configuration, no built-in multi-network management, no reconnection loop, and limited IRCv3 support unless it improves the intended experience.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The README says catgirl and libtls may be packaged for the user's system, and the supplied package facts list Alpine, Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, Nix, Scoop, and Ubuntu. That is broad adoption for a deliberately small IRC client.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run catgirl with a host or load one or more config files from XDG config directories. The manual covers TLS certificates, SASL PLAIN, CertFP via SASL EXTERNAL, logging to XDG data directories, URL open/copy helpers, and IRC command handling.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

catgirl is interesting to package people because it combines old IRC culture with modern packaging details: libtls portability, XDG paths, curses UI, optional macOS sleep/wake wrapper, and BSD sandboxing. It is small, opinionated, and unusually explicit about what it refuses to implement.

### Zeitleiste

- 2020: The README references June McEnroe's IRC Suite essay dated June 19.
- 2025: The generated README page is dated May 8.
- 2026: The cgit page identifies https://git.causal.agency/catgirl as the upstream URL.

### Related projects

- Related projects include pounce, which the README names as an IRC bouncer option, and sandman, the macOS wrapper shipped with catgirl.

### Quellen

- <https://git.causal.agency/catgirl>
- <https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about/>
- <https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about>
- <https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about/catgirl.1>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/catgirl.json>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool 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: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/catgirl, $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/catgirl, ~/.config/catgirl
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - catgirl - 2.2a-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: catgirl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | TLS-only terminal IRC client | https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about/
- Nix - catgirl: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ca/catgirl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - catgirl - 2.2-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: catgirl from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | TLS-only terminal IRC client | https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about/
- apk - catgirl - 2.2a-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: catgirl from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | TLS-only terminal IRC client | https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/
- apk - catgirl-doc - 2.2a-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: catgirl-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | TLS-only terminal IRC client (documentation) | https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/
- MacPorts - catgirl: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/catgirl/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - extras/sandman: installed executable or alias match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/sandman.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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