# metals mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:metals
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install metals
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#metals
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:metals
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.6.7
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Scala language server
- **Homepage:** <https://scalameta.org/metals/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/scalameta/metals>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-22T14:05:28-07:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- metals (Alias)
- metals-mcp (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.6.7
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Metals is the Scala language server from the Scalameta ecosystem. The name is explained by the project as Meta, from Scalameta, plus LS, from Language Server. Early public announcements credited work at the Scala Center with community contributors, and Ólafur Páll Geirsson announced Metals 0.3 and 0.4 releases during the 2018-2019 period as a work-in-progress language server for Scala editors.

### Projektgeschichte

Metals' technical role is to bring IDE features to editors that speak the Language Server Protocol. The 2019 Scala language blog described Metals 0.5 as supporting completions, type at point, goto definition, fuzzy symbol search, and other editing and navigation features in VS Code, Vim, Emacs, Atom, Sublime Text, and any compatible LSP client. The tool also connected the editor side of Scala tooling to build tools through Bloop and the Build Server Protocol, allowing support for sbt, Gradle, Maven, Mill, and any build tool implementing BSP.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Version 1.0.0, codenamed Silver, was announced in July 2023 as a culmination of work by the community and core Metals team, with support for important LSP features and IDE-like workflows in users' editors. Metals documentation names Scala Center and VirtusLab among the organizations developing Metals with community help.

### Wie es verwendet wird

In practice, Metals is installed by editor plugins or as a standalone language-server binary, then launched by VS Code, Neovim, Emacs, Sublime Text, Zed, Helix, or another client. Homebrew and Nix packaging make the server available outside editor-specific installers, which matters for reproducible developer machines, CI checks around editor tooling, and users who prefer to manage language servers through the OS package manager.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/metals>
- <https://github.com/scalameta/metals>
- <https://scalameta.org/metals/blog/2019/01/24/tin/>
- <https://scalameta.org/metals/blog/2023/07/19/silver/>
- <https://scalameta.org/metals/docs/integrations/new-build-tool/>
- <https://users.scala-lang.org/t/metals-v0-3-is-out-compile-errors-and-goto-definition-in-the-editor/3681>
- <https://www.scala-lang.org/2019/04/16/metals.html>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für metals wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - metals: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/me/metals/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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