# kew mit Homebrew, apk, apt, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für kew in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:kew ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install kew ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add kew ``` Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: kew from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install kew ``` Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: kew from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#kew ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ke/kew/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S kew ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: kew from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install kew ``` Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: kew from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:kew - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 4.2.7 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Command-line music player - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-19T08:27:14Z - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - kew (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 4.2.7 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung kew is a terminal music player centered on local music libraries, fast fuzzy-ish command invocation, and privacy-oriented offline playback. Its appeal is deliberately old-school: play albums and folders from a shell, but with modern terminal luxuries such as covers, visualizers, themes, desktop integration, and playlist editing. ### Projektgeschichte The project was developed by ravachol and documented on GitHub as a terminal music player. Its README emphasizes auto-generated playlists from artist, album, or song words, no telemetry by default, gapless playback, sixel-capable cover art, spectrum visualization, MPRIS-style desktop integration, and broad Unix-like platform support. Release discussions show a rapid evolution from a small Linux terminal player into a broader shell music app. The v3.0 release-candidate discussion called out macOS support and dependency changes; later release notes for 4.0 described a redesigned audio module, ASCII visualizations, Discord integration, macOS media-key support, AIFF support, and Arch Linux packaging. ### Adoptionsgeschichte kew moved from a niche terminal-audio project into distribution packaging quickly enough to appear in Homebrew and Linux distribution package sets. That adoption pattern fits terminal music tools: a small upstream repo becomes much easier to try once package managers hide the codec and desktop-integration dependencies. ### Wie es verwendet wird Users run kew with words from an artist, album, song, directory, or playlist name; kew builds a queue from the first matching library location. It is used by people who want local-library playback without a heavyweight GUI or recommendation service. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren kew sits in the lineage of terminal music players, but it is notable for combining shell-first invocation with visual terminal features that became more practical as sixel-capable and GPU-accelerated terminals spread. For packagers, the interesting part is dependency stitching across audio codecs, metadata libraries, cover rendering, notifications, and OS-specific media controls. ### Zeitleiste - 2024: Public discussion introduced kew to a wider terminal/Linux audience as a small local-library music player. - 2025: v3.0 release-candidate notes documented macOS support and larger dependency changes. - 2026: Homebrew packaged kew as a command-line music player, while the upstream README directed active development and issue tracking to Codeberg. ### Related projects - kew belongs near other terminal music players and local-library tools rather than streaming clients. Its README also points packagers toward Repology and downstream package repositories as part of the project workflow. ### Quellen - - - - - ## 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 - Linux: ~/.config/kew/kewrc, ~/.config/kew/kewstaterc - macOS: ~/Library/Preferences/kew/kewrc, ~/Library/Preferences/kew/kewstaterc ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Debian apt - kew - 3.2.0+ds-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: kew from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | play music from the commandline | https://github.com/ravachol/kew - Nix - kew: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ke/kew/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - kew - 2.4.2+ds-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: kew from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | play music from the commandline | https://github.com/ravachol/kew - apk - kew - 4.2.7-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: kew from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A terminal music player with album art & visualizer | https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew - apk - kew-doc - 4.2.7-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: kew-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A terminal music player with album art & visualizer (documentation) | https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew - pacman - kew - 4.2.7-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: kew from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Music for the Shell | https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew - zypper - kew - 4.2.7-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: kew from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A command-line music player | https://github.com/ravachol/kew - zypper - kew-lang - 4.2.7-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: kew-lang from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Translations for package kew | https://github.com/ravachol/kew ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/kew.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/kew.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