gurk mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• gurk

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created in July 2020, and an early v0.2.0 release was published in July 2021. The README describes first-run linking through a QR code, after which the program creates a configuration file at the default config location.

The project cannot publish its binary through crates.io according to the README because it depends on official Signal libraries that are not available there, so distribution relies on release binaries, source installs, and OS package managers.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The README documents installation through GitHub release binaries, `cargo binstall`, `cargo install --git`, Arch Linux packages, Nix/NixOS, and FreeBSD packages or ports. Homebrew and Arch package metadata make it available as a named package for terminal and messaging users.

Its adoption is necessarily niche: it is useful to users who want Signal in a terminal workflow and are comfortable with linked-device semantics, local configuration, and terminal keybindings.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `gurk`, link it as a Signal device via QR code on first launch, and then interact through keyboard-driven channel, message, selection, file upload, URL, reaction, mute, and help commands.

Configuration supports custom keybindings and default-keybinding control in `gurk.toml`; the same config locations may contain sensitive linked-client settings, which is why credentials and configuration locations are the same for curation purposes.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

gurk is notable as a package because it sits at an awkward boundary: a Rust TUI application with Signal protocol dependencies that cannot use the ordinary crates.io binary path. That pushes distributors toward GitHub releases, git-based Cargo installs, and OS package recipes.

For terminal users, it is an example of packaging a messaging client as a keyboard-first command rather than a desktop application.

Zeitleiste

• 2020: GitHub repository created.
• 2021: v0.2.0 release published.

Related projects

• Signal Messenger is the service and protocol ecosystem gurk connects to.
• presage is referenced by the README as a related Signal client library.
• libsignal-related libraries are part of the dependency reason the binary is not published on crates.io.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/boxdot/gurk-rs
• https://api.github.com/repos/boxdot/gurk-rs/releases?per_page=100
• https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boxdot/gurk-rs/main/README.md