# ckan mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ckan
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ckan
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ckan
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ckan
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.36.4
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Comprehensive Kerbal Archive Network
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-05-12T20:50:11Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ckan (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.36.4
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

CKAN is the Comprehensive Kerbal Archive Network, a metadata repository and mod manager for Kerbal Space Program. In packaging culture it is a game-specific package manager inspired by Debian and CPAN ideas.

### Projektgeschichte

The official README defines CKAN as metadata and tools for finding, installing, and managing Kerbal Space Program mods, with dependency and conflict handling. The official specification presents it as an RFC for a standardized archive network for KSP mods.

The GitHub repository was created in 2014, and the release API shows public releases from the same year. The README says the project remains under active development.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The batch input records CKAN in Homebrew and Nix. Upstream also publishes GitHub releases and a NuGet package badge, while the README points players to the wiki user guide and modders to metadata contribution workflows.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Players use CKAN to find, install, update, and manage KSP mods with compatibility, dependency, and conflict checks. Mod authors and metadata contributors use the CKAN metadata specification and schema to describe mod releases.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

CKAN is package-nerd significant because it transposes classic package-manager ideas into a game-mod ecosystem: detached JSON metadata, dependency constraints, conflict metadata, validation, indexes, and an authoritative metadata repository.

### Zeitleiste

- 2014: Official GitHub repository created.
- 2014: Early GitHub release v1.3.3 published.
- 2014: CKAN specification describes Debian and CPAN as design inspirations.
- 2026: Official repository metadata shows continuing activity.

### Related projects

- The CKAN specification cites CPAN metadata, Debian Policy, and KSP-RealSolarSystem-Bundler as design influences.
- The README distinguishes KSP-CKAN from the unrelated open-data portal software also named CKAN.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/blob/master/README.md>
- <https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/blob/master/Spec.md>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/KSP-CKAN/CKAN>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/releases>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für ckan wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - ckan: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ck/ckan/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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