# flint-checker mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, apt, zypper installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:flint-checker
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install flint-checker
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install flint
```

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

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add flint
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install flint
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#flint
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S flint
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: flint from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install libflint-dev
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install flint-devel
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: flint-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:flint-checker
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Check your project for common sources of contributor friction
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/pengwynn/flint>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/pengwynn/flint>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- flint (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.1.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Flint is a small Go command-line checker for common sources of contributor friction in software projects. It checks for project affordances such as a README, contribution guide, license, bootstrap script, and test script.

### Projektgeschichte

The README describes Flint as a tool for helping potential contributors answer basic questions about a project: what it does, how it is licensed, how to contribute, how to set up development, and how to run tests.

The project was maintained by Wynn Netherland and carries a 2014 copyright notice. Its GitHub release metadata shows v0.0.3 in January 2014 and v0.0.4 in December 2014.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Flint's official README documents installation through Go, prebuilt GitHub release binaries, and Homebrew as flint-checker. The supplied package metadata also records packaging in Homebrew.

The tool reflects the GitHub-era convention that repository quality is partly social: a project should include contribution, license, bootstrap, and test-running paths that new contributors can discover quickly.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run flint from a project root to get warnings and errors about missing contributor-facing files. It can also check a remote GitHub repository by owner/name without cloning.

Command-line options let users skip individual checks and provide a GitHub API token through FLINT_TOKEN when checking remote repositories.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Flint is package-nerd relevant as a tiny lint tool for repository metadata rather than source code. It turns informal open-source hygiene expectations into a CLI that package maintainers and project owners could run locally.

Its Homebrew formula name, flint-checker, also matters because the plain flint package name collides with other software in distro ecosystems.

### Zeitleiste

- 2014: Project copyright notice appears in the README.
- 2014: v0.0.3 was published in January.
- 2014: v0.0.4 was published in December.
- 2014: README documented Go, prebuilt binary, and Homebrew installation paths.

### Related projects

- The README cites GitHub contributor-guideline behavior, Choose a License, and readme-driven development as part of its philosophy.
- Flint is conceptually related to repository linting and project-health checkers rather than language-specific code linters.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/pengwynn/flint/releases>
- <https://github.com/pengwynn/flint>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- MacPorts - flint: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: math/flint/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Debian apt - libflint-dev - 3.1.3-2: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: libflint-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | C library for number theory, development files | http://www.flintlib.org/
- Debian apt - libflint-doc - 3.1.3-2: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: libflint-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Documentation for the FLINT library | http://www.flintlib.org/
- Debian apt - libflint19 - 3.1.3-2: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: libflint19 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | C library for number theory, shared library | http://www.flintlib.org/
- Nix - flint: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fl/flint/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - libflint-dev - 3.0.1-3.1build1: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libflint-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | C library for number theory, development files | http://www.flintlib.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libflint-doc - 3.0.1-3.1build1: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libflint-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Documentation for the FLINT library | http://www.flintlib.org/
- Ubuntu apt - libflint18t64 - 3.0.1-3.1build1: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libflint18t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | C library for number theory, shared library | http://www.flintlib.org/
- apk - flint - 3.4.0-r1: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: flint from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | C library in support of computations in number theory | https://flintlib.org/
- apk - flint-dev - 3.4.0-r1: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: flint-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | C library in support of computations in number theory (development files) | https://flintlib.org/
- dnf - flint - 3.5.0-2.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: flint from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Fast Library for Number Theory | https://flintlib.org/
- dnf - flint-devel - 3.5.0-2.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: flint-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development files for FLINT | https://flintlib.org/
- pacman - flint - 3.6.0-1: installed executable or alias match | Arch Linux sync databases: flint from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A C library for doing number theory | http://www.flintlib.org
- zypper - flint-devel - 3.6.0-1.2: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: flint-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Development files for flint | https://flintlib.org/
- zypper - libflint24 - 3.6.0-1.2: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libflint24 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | C library for doing number theory | https://flintlib.org/


## Combined YAML source

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