# lfe mit Homebrew, apk installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:lfe
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install lfe
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add lfe
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:lfe
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.2.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Concurrent Lisp for the Erlang VM
- **Homepage:** <https://lfe.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lfe/lfe>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- lfe (Alias)
- lfe-first-try (Alias)
- lfe-test (Alias)
- lfec (Alias)
- lfedoc (Alias)
- lfeexec (Alias)
- lfescript (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.2.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

LFE, Lisp Flavoured Erlang, is a Lisp syntax front end for Erlang and the BEAM virtual machine. Its package appeal comes from making Erlang/OTP concurrency, fault-tolerance, and library interoperability available through Lisp forms, macros, and a REPL.

### Projektgeschichte

The LFE project credits Robert Virding with releasing the first version in 2008, after early 2007 experiments with parsing and implementing a Lisp. Virding's stated goals were to explore a Lisp designed for BEAM, to compile through Core Erlang into the Erlang compiler backend, and to keep full interaction with Erlang/OTP.

The version history shows early 0.x releases evolving the language from basic shell/compiler support into a Lisp-2 design, macro system, Core Erlang generation, records, binary syntax, Query List Comprehensions, and match-specification features. The 1.0 and 2.x release lines later made LFE look more like a maintained language runtime package than a one-off experiment.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The LFE website describes production use beginning in 2015 and frames the language as part of the Erlang community's own Lisp ecosystem. Package-manager adoption is narrower than Erlang itself, but Homebrew and Alpine packaging make it easy for BEAM and Lisp-curious developers to install the language tools without building from a clone.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical package usage is interactive or developer-facing: install the package, run the `lfe` REPL, compile with `lfec`, generate docs with `lfedoc`, or run scripts with `lfescript`. The README emphasizes compatibility with normal Erlang code, so LFE modules can sit beside Erlang modules rather than requiring a separate runtime world.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

LFE is interesting to package nerds because it is both a language implementation and an Erlang ecosystem bridge: one formula brings in a Lisp REPL, compiler tooling, script runner, and documentation commands for BEAM. It also preserves the long tradition of alternate syntaxes targeting mature VMs.

### Zeitleiste

- 2007: Robert Virding experimented with parsing and implementing a Lisp.
- 2008: The first LFE version was released.
- 2015: The project website describes stable production use beginning in this year.
- 2021: LFE 2.0 was published as a GitHub release.
- 2025: LFE 2.2.0 was published as a GitHub release.

### Related projects

- LFE is directly related to Erlang, Core Erlang, OTP, BEAM, and other Lisp-family languages. In packaging terms it sits near Erlang language tools, alternative BEAM languages, and REPL-oriented development packages.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lfe>
- <https://github.com/lfe/lfe/releases>
- <https://lfe.io/about/>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lfe/lfe/develop/README.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lfe/lfe/develop/doc/src/version_history.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- apk - lfe - 2.2.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lfe from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Lisp Flavoured Erlang | https://lfe.io/
- apk - lfe-doc - 2.2.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lfe-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Lisp Flavoured Erlang (documentation) | https://lfe.io/


## Combined YAML source

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