# eask-cli mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, scoop, winget, dnf installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:eask-cli
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install eask-cli
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install eask-cli
```

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

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#eask-cli
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install eask
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: eask from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/eask-cli
```

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

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id eask.cli -e
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:eask-cli
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.12.9
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** CLI for building, running, testing, and managing your Emacs Lisp dependencies
- **Homepage:** <https://emacs-eask.github.io/>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- eask (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.12.9
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Eask is a CLI and project file format for Emacs Lisp package development, dependency management, testing, and script execution. It is distributed as the `eask` executable and uses an `Eask` file as the project configuration surface.

### Projektgeschichte

The official GitHub repository was created in March 2022. The README says Eask was originally designed as a package development tool for Elisp projects, then expanded to support dependency management in Emacs configurations and running Elisp programs as a lightweight runtime.

Eask positions itself as a successor or alternative to earlier Emacs Lisp build tools such as Cask, makem.sh, and Eldev. Its documentation emphasizes a consistent sandboxing environment, built-in Emacs commands, testing/linting helpers, and a dependency-light executable.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Eask's adoption is concentrated in the Emacs Lisp package-maintainer community. The npm registry records the scoped package `@emacs-eask/cli`, while Homebrew packages the same npm artifact as `eask-cli`; the input also records additional package-manager availability across MacPorts, Nix, Scoop, winget, and Fedora.

The official docs homepage describes Eask as supporting 80-plus commands, which explains its appeal for maintainers who want one repeatable CLI for package checks, dependency installation, byte compilation, linters, and test runners.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage is to place an `Eask` file in an Emacs Lisp project, then run `eask` commands for dependency installation, package building, byte compilation, linting, and tests. The README notes that the Eask file itself is treated as Emacs Lisp, which keeps the configuration familiar to Emacs package authors.

Eask can also be used outside package publishing: users can manage dependencies for an Emacs configuration or run Elisp programs through the CLI.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Eask is package-nerd-interesting because it brings modern CLI packaging expectations to a historically editor-native ecosystem. It wraps Emacs Lisp package development in a global executable, documented commands, CI-friendly behavior, and package-manager distribution.

It is also a small example of cross-ecosystem packaging: an Emacs-focused tool distributed via npm, then repackaged by Homebrew and other OS package managers.

### Zeitleiste

- 2022-03: The official GitHub repository was created.
- 2022-09: npm registry records creation of `@emacs-eask/cli`.
- 2024-06: GitHub releases show the 0.10.0 line.
- 2025-12: GitHub releases show the 0.12.0 line.
- 2026-06: GitHub releases show 0.12.10 while Homebrew packages 0.12.9.

### Related projects

- Cask is the older Emacs Lisp project tool Eask explicitly compares itself with.
- makem.sh and Eldev are related Emacs Lisp build/test tools named by the README.
- GNU Emacs is the runtime and package ecosystem Eask targets.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/emacs-eask/cli>
- <https://emacs-eask.github.io/>
- <https://registry.npmjs.org/@emacs-eask%2fcli>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/eask-cli.json>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## 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: Eask
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - eask-cli: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ea/eask-cli/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - eask-cli: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/eask-cli/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - extras/eask-cli: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/eask-cli.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - eask.cli: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: eask.cli from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
- dnf - eask - 0.12.9-2.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: eask from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Emacs Lisp dependency manager | https://github.com/emacs-eask/cli


## Combined YAML source

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